Bismarck's domestic policy

BISMARCK’S DOMESTIC POLICY

GERMAN CONSTITUTION AND ITS OPERATION
· Based on North German Confederation in 1867
· States preserved their own constitutions, rulers, parliaments and administrative systems
· Sthn. States retained some special internal rights- mainly decorative
· System: delicate equilibrium with the key institutions keeping each other in check, created major tensions between monarchical and parliamentary claims to power & between federal and state power
· Prussia could no longer be governed without consideration of wider interests
· B. recognised the need to make tacti...