The new leaders of the Meiji regime

A. sought to eliminate all Western influence from their country.
B. denied key administrative posts to modernizing samurai from the Sat-Cho group.
C. planned to create a modern political system based on the Western model.
D. celebrated the role of the samurai in past and future society.
E. gave the emperor absolute power inasmuch as he was a divine descendent of the Sun Goddess.


Answer: C

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