The First Chinese Constitutionalist: Huang Zongxi
Huang Zongxi living in the chaos of 17th-century China was one of the first Chinese thinkers to argue for constitutionalism as a method of limiting state power.
Portraits of Liberty · Libertarianism.org
May 6, 202121m 28s
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Show Notes
After the death of his father and the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Zongxi began to contemplate how things had collapsed. He began to think that governments were the problem. Those in power only served themselves. Huang proposed his solution to the chaos in his book Waiting for the Dawn, where he argued for a government that served the people and protected property. The government's power would be limited and kept in check to prevent tyranny from arising.
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