This article has been considered to have eliminated such private ownership and ruling of lands and people and have converted the old system into a system which the emperor comprehensively ruled the nation, in other words, conversion of private ownership of lands and people into a Kochi Komin system of state ownership of lands and people.
本条は、このような土地・人民に対する私的な所有・支配を排除し、天皇による統一的な支配体制への転換、すなわち私地私民制から公地公民制への転換を示すものと解釈されてきた。