However, Inoue was so true to his belief that he sometimes took a radical approach, for example, in the Political Change of 1881, he took the liberty to insist the construction of a German-style nation to Tomomi IWAKURA and tried to push it through as the government's policy.
だが一方で自分の信念に忠実な余り過激な振る舞いに出ることがあり、明治14年の政変の際には井上が勝手に岩倉具視に対してドイツ式の国家建設を説いてこれを政府の方針として決定させようとした。