"CHAPTER III. THE IMPERIAL DIET
Article 33. The Imperial Diet shall consist of two Houses, a House of Peers and a House of Representatives.
Article 34. The House of Peers shall, in accordance with the ordinance concerning the House of Peers, be composed of the members of the Imperial Family, of the orders of nobility, and of those who have been nominated thereto by the Emperor.
Article 35. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected by the people, according to the provisions of the law of Election."
Excerpt from Japan's 1889 Meiji Constitution, which created an elected government
The system established in the passage is most similar to which of the following?
a)The self-strengthening policies of the Chinese empire
b)The secularization of states such as the Ottoman Empire
c)The creation of political rights following the Haitian Revolution
d)The parliamentary rule of European states such as Germany
(Pick one of abcd)