In the Showa period, Tatsukichi MINOBE and the Bureau of Shinto shrines considered that shrine veneration was one of the constitutional duties of subjects, but it was not issued as a formal constitutional interpretation by the prewar Ministry of Home Affairs. |
昭和に入ってから美濃部達吉や神社局 には神社崇敬を憲法上の臣民の義務ととらえる姿勢があったが、内務省の公式の憲法解釈として発せられることはなかった。 |