The Kenseitō (憲政党 Constitutional Party ) was a political party in the Meiji period Empire of Japan.The Kenseitō was founded in June 1898 as a merger of the Shimpotō headed by Ōkuma Shigenobu and the Liberal Party of Japan (Jiyūtō) led by Itagaki Taisuke with Ōkuma as party president. The merger gave the new party an overwhelming majority in the Lower House of the Diet of Japan.
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