戊戌时期康有为、梁启超的议会思想与近代西方国家的议会制度与思想本属两途，有着性质上的差别。康、梁议会思想的资料来源，皆为中国儒学经典与中国历史。这正说明了康、梁对西方近代议会制度缺乏充分的了解，并有着很大的误解，故用中国经典去比附。若称"戊戌变法学习了西方的制度与思想"，很可能只学习了外形，康、梁并没掌握西方政治制度与思想的真精神。

KANG You-wei and LIANG Qi-chao's understanding of parliament during the Reform Movement of 1898 was essentially different from the modern Western doctrine of parliament. The resource of their idea of parliament was Chinese Confucian classics and Chinese history. This shows that KANG and LIANG did not have a full understanding of the modern Western system of parliament, so that they compared it with Chinese classics in a random way due to their misunderstandings. Even if it is reasonable to claim that "the Reform Movement of 1898 learned from Western system and thought", we must say what had been learn is merely the appearance since KANG and LIANG did not master the essence of Western political system and thought.