Okada Cabinet at the time declared in August 3 that 'saying the sovereignty didn't reside with the emperor and the emperor was an organ to exercise it was an incomparable action to damage the primordial doctrine of the fundamental character of the nation.'
当時の岡田内閣は、同年8月3日には「統治権が天皇に存せずして天皇は之を行使する為の機関なりと為すがごときは、これ全く万邦無比なる我が国体の本義を愆るものなり。」とした。