Chapter 28 — Multiple Pathways of Institutional Succession After the End of the Party-state’s Monopoly Organizational Dissolution, the Transfer of Power, Civil Noncooperation, Local Self-Government, the Return of the Republic, and Democratic Constitution-Making (The Preparatory Phase)
Focus：CORE ARGUMENT OF THIS CHAPTER. This chapter renders the “elimination of the CCP” concretely as the elimination of the Party’s monopoly over state and society, rather than the annihilation of any category of persons. It takes as its normatively preferred pathways peaceful negotiation, a turn from within the system, civil nonviolent noncooperation, local self-government, the return of the Republic of China’s Republican legitimacy, an interim charter, and democratic constitution-making — among which the “restoration of the Republic” is treated as a focal point of discussion: it regards the Republic of China’s century of reform as a successful exemplar of American-style democracy on Chinese soil, and it advocates augmenting federal self-government and expanding civil rights. At the same time, it studies how, once a violent upheaval, a popular uprising, a split within the military and police, or a loss of local control has already occurred, to swiftly secure a ceasefire and halt violence, protect civilians, preserve public services, limit interim power, and transition to democratic authorization.
This chapter: 11 sections.
This chapter renders the “elimination of the CCP” concretely as the elimination of the Party’s monopoly over state and society, rather than the annihilation of any category of persons. It takes as its normatively preferred pathways peaceful negotiation, a turn from within the system, civil nonviolent noncooperation, local self-government, the return of the Republic of China’s Republican legitimacy, an interim charter, and democratic constitution-making — among which the “restoration of the Republic” is treated as a focal point of discussion: it regards the Republic of China’s century of reform as a successful exemplar of American-style democracy on Chinese soil, and it advocates augmenting federal self-government and expanding civil rights. At the same time, it studies how, once a violent upheaval, a popular uprising, a split within the military and police, or a loss of local control has already occurred, to swiftly secure a ceasefire and halt violence, protect civilians, preserve public services, limit interim power, and transition to democratic authorization.
SCOPE AND CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY. Any normative path must pass the tests of the right to life, democratic authorization, due process, and the principle of minimal harm. As for the paths of armed seizure of power, assassination, terrorist attack, popular reprisal, and civil war, this chapter does not treat them as recommended options, yet it must assess their conditions of occurrence, legal responsibility, catastrophic consequences, and the means of moving from established violence to a ceasefire, a provisional legal basis, public oversight, and democratic constitution-making; it does not provide knowledge for carrying out violence.
SCOPE AND CLASSIFICATION BOUNDARY. Any normative path must pass the tests of the right to life, democratic authorization, due process, and the principle of minimal harm. As for the paths of armed seizure of power, assassination, terrorist attack, popular reprisal, and civil war, this chapter does not treat them as recommended options, yet it must assess their conditions of occurrence, legal responsibility, catastrophic consequences, and the means of moving from established violence to a ceasefire, a provisional legal basis, public oversight, and democratic constitution-making; it does not provide knowledge for carrying out violence.
This chapter: 11 sections.
- CH-028.1 28-1 Objectives, Principles, and the Rule-of-Law Boundaries of “Elimination”
- CH-028.10 28-10 Survival, Self-Protection, and Minimal-Casualty Preparedness for the People of the Mainland
- CH-028.11 28-11 Forceful and Lawful Public Political Advocacy: Freely Determining the Government, Halting Repression, and International Support
- CH-028.2 28-2 Negotiated Transfer, the Limits of Amnesty, and Peaceful Transition from Within the System
- CH-028.3 28-3 Civil Nonviolent Resistance Under Repression, Universal Noncooperation, and Social Self-Organization
- CH-028.4 28-4 Local Self-Government, Grassroots Interim Governance, and Polycentric Coordination
- CH-028.5 28-5 The Return of the Republic of China’s Republican Legitimacy, an Interim Charter, and Democratic Constitution-Making
- CH-028.6 28-6 Democratic Authorization, Party Competition, and the Prevention of a New Dictatorship
- CH-028.7 28-7 Transition Coalitions and Organizational Capacity: Civic, Local, Intra-System, Overseas, and International Collaboration
- CH-028.8 28-8 Reserved Provisions for Institutional Succession After the CCP’s Involuntary Loss of Power or Sudden Organizational Collapse
- CH-028.9 28-9 “Peaceful, Rational, Nonviolent” Action Under Repression: Civil Nonviolent Resistance That Does Not Presuppose the Rulers’ Permission
The international experience bank for institutional succession: Spain's transition (1975–78), Poland's Round Table (1989), South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation (1995), the Baltic states' restoration of legal continuity — and the Republic of China constitution (1947), whose complete practice from martial law to democracy on Taiwan offers the mainland a path from interim charter to constitutional order.
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AI draft - pending review Multi-path institutional succession: from civil resistance to constitutional handover, drawing on Spain, Poland, South Africa, and the ROC constitution.