Editing Legislative Yuan (section)

===Establishment and relocation to Taiwan===
[[File:Legislative Yuan (1928) in Nanjing, Nov 2017.jpg|thumb|Former Legislative Yuan building in Nanjing, 1928 (seen in 2017).]]
[[File:Former Legislative Yuan & Control Yuan in Nanjing 2011-10.JPG|thumb|Former Legislative Yuan and [[Control Yuan]] building in Nanjing,  1946–1949 (seen in 2011).]]

The original Legislative Yuan was formed in the original capital of [[Nanjing]] after the completion of the [[Northern Expedition]]. Its 51 members were appointed to a term of two years. The 4th Legislative Yuan under this period had its members expanded to 194, and its term in office was extended to 14 years because of the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] (1937–1945). According to KMT political theory, these first four sessions marked the period of [[political tutelage]].

The current [[Constitution of the Republic of China]] came into effect on 25 December 1947, and the first Legislative session convened in Nanjing on 18 May 1948, with 760 members. Six preparatory meetings had been held on 8 May 1948, during which [[Sun Fo]] and [[Chen Li-fu]] were elected president and vice president of the body. In 1949, [[mainland China]] fell to the [[Communist Party of China|Communist Party]] and the Legislative Yuan (along with the entire ROC government) was transplanted to [[Taipei]]. On 24 February 1950, 380 members convened at the Sun Yat-sen Hall in Taipei.

The first Legislative Yuan was to have been elected for a term of three years ending in 1951; however, the fall of mainland China made it impossible to hold new elections.<ref name="Fetzer">[[Joel S. Fetzer]], J Christopher Soper, Confucianism, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_929g2KkSwIC&pg=PA58 Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan], p 58, Lexington Books, 15 October 2012.</ref> As a result, the [[Judicial Yuan]] decided that the members of the Legislative Yuan would continue to hold office until new elections could be held on the Mainland. This decision was made in the belief that the KMT would retake the Mainland in a short time. However, over the years, as the prospect of regaining the Mainland diminished, this meant that the legislators from mainland districts (and members of the ruling KMT) held their seats for life, in a one-party system. The body thus came to be called "the Non-reelected Congress".<ref name="Fetzer"/>

Over the years, deceased members elected on the mainland were not replaced while additional seats were created for [[Taiwan]] starting with eleven seats in 1969. Fifty-one new members were elected to a three-year term in 1972, fifty-two in 1975, ninety-seven in 1980, ninety-eight in 1983, one hundred in 1986, and one hundred thirty in 1989. Although the elected members of the Legislative Yuan did not have the majority to defeat legislation, they were able to use the Legislative Yuan as a platform to express [[political dissent]]. Opposition parties were formally illegal until 1991, but in the 1970s candidates to the Legislative Yuan would run as [[Tangwai movement|Tangwai]] ("outside the party"), and in 1985 candidates began to run under the banner of the [[Democratic Progressive Party]].