However, after the end of the Meiji period, with Japan's modernization advancing rapidly, the movements aiming to introduce a communist system of government and those aiming to introduce a republican one expanded, resulting in the theory that the Emperor was an organ of the state becoming the mainstream of Constitutional Theory; as a result, Shinchoku was often used as a rationale for opposing these movements.
しかし、明治後期以降、急速な近代化の進展にともなって、共和政体や共産主義を志向する勢力の伸張や、天皇機関説が憲法学説において主流をなすようになると、これに対抗するための論理的根拠として用いられることが多くなった。