摘要：1840年鸦片战争后，中国逐渐沦为半殖民地半封建社会，民族危机日益严重，国内起义不断。面临内忧外患，清政府于20世纪初继洋务运动、维新运动之后推动了第三次大型改革——立宪运动。这场运动是清王朝为了实现王朝自救和顺应世界潮流、争取自强自立而作出的重大政改举措。宪政虽不完善，也未能进行到底，但毕竞还是迈出了重要一步。清末立宪运动颁布了《钦定宪法大纲》，修订了一系列具有近代性质的法律法规，推行了近代官僚制度，成立了中国史上第一个责任内阁，推动了中国近代社会政治的新陈代谢，为稍后的民主共和政治的建立客观上作了思想上和舆论上的准备。

关键词：清末  立宪运动 评述

Abstract:After the Opium War of 1840,China gradually became a semi-feudal society with Increasingly serious national crisis and continuous domestic uprisings.  After facing internal and external Calamities, the Qing government following the Westernization Movement Reform Movement in the early 20th century to promote the third major reform - Constitutional Movement. The campaign is a major political reform initiatives in order to achieve the Qing Dynasty reign of self-help and the global trend towards self-reliance.

Constitutionalism is not perfect though, even failed in the end, but it still an important step.

It promulgated the "Outline Imperial Constitution" and amended a series of laws and regulations with the modern nature.It also established the first responsibility of the Cabinet in China,promoting the metabolism of modern Chinese social political.Preparations for ideology and public opinion on were made to establish Democratic Republic of the later.

Key words：  Late Qing  Constitutional Movement  Commentary