Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China

Lai Ching-te (DPP) Hsiao Bi-khim (DPP) Cho Jung-tai (DPP) 11th Legislative Yuan Han Kuo-yu (KMT) Shieh Ming-yan acting Vacant Vacant Vacant Control Yuan Chen Chu Lee Hung-chun Local government Central Election Commission Kuomintang Democratic Progressive Party Taiwan People's Party Others New Power Party Taiwan Statebuilding Party People First Party Taiwan Solidarity Union New Party Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Newspapers United Daily News Liberty Times China Times Taipei Times Propaganda Censorship Film censorship Lin Chia-lung Cross-Strait relations Special state-to-state relations One Country on Each Side 1992 Consensus Taiwan consensus Chinese Taipei Australia–Taiwan relations Canada–Taiwan relations France–Taiwan relations Russia–Taiwan relations Taiwan–United Kingdom relations Taiwan–United States relations Republic of China (1912–1949) Chinese Civil War One-China policy China and the United Nations Chinese unification Taiwan independence movement Taiwanese nationalism Tangwai movement The Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China are the revisions and amendments to the original constitution of the Republic of China to "meet the requisites of the nation prior to national unification", taking into account the democratic reforms and current political status of Taiwan.

Thus, the Additional Articles of the Constitution defines the Free Area (Chinese: 自由地區; pinyin: Zìyóu Dìqū; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chū-iû Tē-khu; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhṳ-yù Thi-khî) to be the territory and the people under the government's effective jurisdiction.

The National Assembly is de facto abolished, and its functions are exercised directly by the citizens of the Free area.

The five-power governmental structure is retained, though it functions closer to the traditional Western trias politica in practice.

Most of the amendments brought by the Additional Articles focuses on the mechanism of separation of powers among central governmental organs.