Editing Three Principles of the People (section)

===''Mínquán'' or Governance Rights===
The framing of '[[Democracy in China|democracy]]' ({{Lang-zh|t=民權主義|p=Mínquán Zhǔyì|l=Principle of people's right}}) in the Three Principles of the People differs from the typical Western view democracy, being based in Liang's interpretation of [[General will]], which prioritizes the power of the group over individual freedoms.<ref name=":17">{{Cite book |last=Crean |first=Jeffrey |title=The Fear of Chinese Power: an International History |date=2024 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |isbn=978-1-350-23394-2 |edition= |series=New Approaches to International History series |location=London, UK}}</ref>{{Rp|page=54}} Sun viewed traditional Chinese society as too individualistic and stated that individual liberty must be broken down so that the Chinese people could pressed together, using the metaphor of adding cement to sand.<ref name=":17" />{{Rp|page=54}}

==== Four Rights of the People ====
The power of politics ({{Lang-zh|c=政權|p=zhèngquán}}) are the powers of the people to express their political wishes and keep administrative officers in check, similar to those vested in the citizenry or the parliaments in other countries, and is represented by the [[National Assembly of the Republic of China|National Assembly]]. The power of the people is guaranteed by four constitutional rights: the right to [[election]] (選舉), [[recall election|recalling]] (罷免), [[Popular initiative|initiative]] (創制), and [[referendum]] (複決).<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=三民主義|wslanguage=zh|chapter=民权主義第五講}}</ref> These may be equated to "[[civil rights]]".

==== Five Power Constitution ====
{{Main|Constitution of the Republic of China}}
The power of governance ({{Lang-zh|c=治權|p=zhìquán}}) are the powers of the administration to govern the people. He criticized the traditional [[Separation of powers|three-branch democratic government]] for vesting too much power in the legislative branch.<ref name=":0" /> He expanded and reworked the European-American [[Three powers of the State|three-branch government]] and the system of [[Separation of powers#Checks and balances|checks and balances]] by incorporating traditional Chinese administrative systems to create a government of five branches (each of which is called a Yuan ({{Lang-zh|c=院|p=yuàn|l=court}})) in a system known as the Five Power Constitution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Five-Power Constitution {{!}} Chinese government {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Five-Power-Constitution |access-date=9 April 2022 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626050015/https://www.britannica.com/event/Five-Power-Constitution |url-status=live }}</ref> The state is divided into five "Yuan"s: [[Legislative Yuan]], the [[Executive Yuan]], and the [[Judicial Yuan]] came from [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]]an thought; the [[Control Yuan]] and the [[Examination Yuan]] came from Chinese tradition.<ref name=":1" /> (Note that the Legislative Yuan was first intended as a branch of governance, not strictly equivalent to a national parliament.)