明代言官承旨弹劾现象分析 --以正统至天顺时期为中心.

Impeachment in the Ming Dynasty was initiated by the supervisors, exercising supervisory function, and requested the emperor 's ruling, which formed a complete supervision system. However, the emperor started to participate in the early stage of the supervision process, asking supervisors to impeach in order to realize the legitimacy of punishment procedure after ZhengTong period. By analyzing this phenomenon and discussing its evolution, the emperor not only participated in the supervision as a decision-maker, but also a permission man and a initiator. This phenomenon was formed in the urgent needs of the stable operation of imperial power, developed in the political needs of the centralization of imperial power, and finally disappeared in the lack of institutional condition. It can be found that the censorate system in the Ming Dynasty played an indispensable role in the operation of imperial power in a specific period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]