Kaisereich structure

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Kaisereich
- 1871- unification
- Structure
  - Federal state
    - 25 states, 4 kingdoms
    - Some got universal suffrage
  - Military- not accountable
    - Resp to K
      - oath
- Kaiser
  - Control on fp, domestic policy
  - Wilhelm- preffered military
- Chancellor
  - Responsible to Kaiser- could get rid of state secretaries
  - Bismark
    - Could ignore Reichstag
    - all dependent on political ability
- Bundesrat
  - 58 members
  - Elected by state assemblies
    - In theory, could change the constitution
    - in theory- change- Bismark devised to avoid radical leg
    - Prussian dom- 17/58
    - No leg passed without Prussian chamber of deputies
      - More tax=more votes
- Reichstag
  - Supposed to have joint leg power
  - Had control over defence bud- decreased to 5 years
  - Universal male suffrage over 25
- Economic Growth
  - industry in steel, engineering etc
  - chemicals etc
  - URBANISATION
    - Junkers
    - Industrial bourgeiose
    - M.C
    - Mittlestand
  - Bismark's tarrif law 1879
    - protected Junkers and peasents
      - consequences
        pressure on political system
        Uneven economic growth
Only 1 man in charage of the Reichstag
- Kaiser
  - Control on fp, domestic policy
  - Wilhelm- preffered military

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