November Revolution

The November Revolution (Zhenian: 11월 혁명), also known as the Zhenian Revolution of 1569, was a  that occurred in Zhenia in 1569 AC against the Third Zhenian Republic and the Kim Shimin regime. It refers to a series of protests, nationwide rallies and a series of other events against the current regime that started in the June of 1569 and ended with the resignation of Kim Shimin from Chancellor and the subsequent end of the Third Republic. It is also referred to as the Second Zhenian Revolution, in reverence to the December Revolution that marked the transition from the Empire of Zhenia to the First Republic.

Changes in leadership and revision of the Constitution
The resignation of both the Chancellor and Premier, as well as the dismantling of the Cabinet, left a blank of power that called for a new set of both Chancellor and. In the general elections that quickly followed on November 20, 1569, the Union of Neo-Renism, a newly-founded party that were led by November Revolution activists and opposition party politicians during the Third Republic, won in a landslide and formed a majority of the new Parliament; Li Shan, one of the party's leaders, won the Chancellor elections on the same day, defeating Liberal Democrat candidate Lee Minsuk in a landslide.

A day after they were elected, the Parliament drafted the revisions to the Zhenian Constitution as the Parliamentary Constitution Committee. In the process, many of the centralized authoritarian principles implemented during the Third Republic, particularly concerning the rights of the Chancellor and Premier, were eliminated or revised; some characteristics implemented into the Constitution during the Third Republic, including the clause mentioning the state's duty to provide social security to its people, were maintained. Revised Renist principles, concerning the partial justification of centralized authority to maintain stability of life and liberty of the people, were significantly reflected into the Constitution, although the core principles concerning the rights and liberties of the Zhenian people remained intact. The revised Constitution, was rapidly processed and put to a nationwide referendum on November 30, 1569 and passed with 89% of the constituents agreeing upon it. The revised Constitution was ratified and proclaimed on December 1, 1569, a day remembered as Republic Day in Zhenia to this day. The day the revised Constitution was proclaimed is considered as the beginning of the Fourth Zhenian Republic.

Trials, punishment and loss of power
At the same day of their resignation from Chancellor and Premier respectively, Kim Shimin and Park Jungho, along with several members of the Cabinet and members of the Front of National Salvation, were arrested with charges of "dismantling the constitutional order of the Zhenian Republic and the rights of the Zhenian people". Kim Shimin and Park Jungho in particular were put in, while most members of the Cabinet at the time as well as the Front of National Salvation were imprisoned.

Kim Shimin, having spearheaded the Third Republic from the beginning since the Coup of 1549, was expected to take on the largest burden of such charges. While more radical factions that led the revolution, most notably the People's Action Party, called for the imprisonment and execution of key Third Republic leaders for charges against the state, much of the Fourth Republic's new government, including Li Shan and a majority of the members of the Union of Neo-Renism, argued against brutality against the Third Republic's leaders. While the Third Republic's leaders would have been punishable had they been impeached through the governmental process, Kim Shimin in particular had voluntarily resigned, making the determination of his legal status in relation to such charges difficult. After a process many speculated as a, Kim Shimin made a public announcement on December 24, 1569 concerning his relinquishment of all privileges, pensions and rights as a former Chancellor, as well as the returning of all of his assets gained during the Third Republic to society. The Li Shan administration on the next day announced the end of the prosecution process against Kim Shimin, specially pardoning him. After he was pardoned, Kim Shimin returned and resided in his home in Dongdo, permanently distancing himself from political affairs of the Fourth Republic until his death on June 4, 1572.