Minto is the general term of the political parties such as the Liberal Party (in the Meiji period) and the Constitutional Progressive Party and so on which promoted the Movement for Democratic Rights in the Meiji Period.
民党（みんとう）とは、明治時代の自由民権運動を推進してきた自由党_(明治)・立憲改進党などの民権派各党の総称。