Mi Yi Dai Fan Lu (Pre-dawn Discourses for future Rule) by Huang Zong-xi is a profound critique and sharp analysis about the nature of the Chinese family-possessed autocratic monarchy traced back to the Qin and the Han Dynasties and the subsequent maladies. The English philosopher, John Stuart Mill, combing classic liberalism and utilitarianism, had profound influence upon the democracy of England through his thought of classic democracy and his assertion of the bicameral parliament. Thought different in language context and problem consciousness, Huang Zong-xi and Mill coincided in seeing people as the most important element of the nation and asserted that the government was responsible for fulfilling the justice of the society and the well-being of the people. Their major difference lies in that, under the influence of the “natural rights” doctrine, Mill developed his discourses about democratic parliamentarianism and its relationship with the embodiment of human rights. The language context of these discourses derived from the fact that, in the tradition of the theory of justice as part of western ethics, the ideas of human rights such as liberty and equality were realized in the concrete protection of the law. In Huang Zong-xi’s time, there were not the conditions as in John Stuart Mill’s age. Based on Mencius’s thought of “people as the root of the state,” Huang Zong-xi made efforts to pint out that human nature was possessed with equal dignity, sublime meaning of life and values. Huang demanded the governing rulers were required to have a higher self-awareness in morality, treat people as human beings, and see the whole population according to the value judgment of beneficence and justice. Huang’s idea of human rights granted by law (constitution) . To develop Huang’s political ideas in the contemporary age, we should recognize that people’s dignity, political rights, moral rights and cultural rights cannot be fulfilled except under the institution of constitutional democracy.