在袁世凯独裁专制野心逐步彰显时期,杨永泰以《正谊》杂志为阵地,对袁世凯意图走向独裁专制的政策进行同步揭露和评判。在这一过程中,其民主共和思想在对政治会议、“新约法”等独裁工具的抨击和其独特的倡导共和思想中得到淋漓尽致地体现。同时,杨永泰还切中时弊地提出了“施以根本之疗治”的宪政改革思想,以救国御侮。杨永泰的民主共和思想成为反对袁世凯独裁专制的舆论阵营中的重要力量,该时期的民主共和思想与其后期倾向独裁统治的思想形成鲜明对比。 During the time when Yuan Shikai’s dictatorship and autocratic ambition gradually manifested itself, Yang Yongtai used “Zheng Yi” magazine as a front ground to expose and judge Yuan Shikai’s policy toward dictatorship and despotism simultaneously. In this process, the democratic republican ideology is vividly reflected in the attack on the dictatorship tools such as the political conference and the New Testament law and its unique advocacy republicanism. In the meantime, Yang Yongtai also pointed out the disadvantages when he proposed the constitutional reform idea of ​​“treating people at his own root” so as to save the country and resist the country. Yang Yongtai’s democratic republican ideology became an important force in opposition to Yuan Shihkai’s dictatorship in the public opinion camp. The democratic republicanism of that period contrasted sharply with his later tendency toward dictatorship.