Refer to the passage. The system established in the passage is most similar
to which of the following?
"CHAPTER III.
THE IMPERIAL DIET
Article 33. The Imperial Diet shall consist of two Houses,
a House of Peers and a House of Representatives.
The self-strengthening policies of the Chinese empire
The secularization of states such as the Ottoman
Empire
The creation of political rights following the Haitian
Revolution
Article 34. The House of Peers shall, in accordance with
the ordinance concerning the House of Peers, be
composed of the members of the Imperial Family, of the
orders of nobility, and of those who have been nominated
thereto by the Emperor.
The parliamentary rule of European states such as
Germany
Article 35. The House of Representatives shall be
composed of members elected by the people, according
to the provisions of the law of Election."
Excerpt from Japan's 1889 Meiji Constitution, which
created an elected government