However, it seems that the idea of the constitutional monarchy didn't prevail to the public (this was obvious from the difference in reactions between of the public who had read Minobe's explanation on newspapers and of the House of Peers [Japan]), and since the theory of the imperial sovereignty got an advantage after a series of turmoil, these people tended to advocate that the idea of the constitutional monarch was 'uncritical acceptance of western theory (summarized from "Kokutai no Hongi" [the primordial doctrine of the national]).'
しかしながら、こういった立憲君主との考えをば大衆をして浸透しなかったようで（それは美濃部の弁明を新聞で読んだ大衆の反応と、貴族院(日本)での反応の温度差に明らかであり）、一連の騷動以後は天皇主権説が台頭したため、それらの論者は往々にしてこの立憲君主の考えを「西洋由来の学説の無批判の受け入れである（『國體の本義』より要約）」と断じた。