Show the ho rowers lowera of tho clio central gov in germany many the lerman empire is ia u federal state the powers of et which aro are derived exclusively from grants mala made by its members anil and ure enumerated in a written constitution all powers not dole gatal to it by this oro aro reserved to tho the several slates slaten the legislative authority is divide 1 between or r rather is in exercised concurrently by the ho Feil cral council and the diet tho the executive is la shared la in the sime same milliner manner by the iho emperor sall tile tho federal council with the concurrence conour renoe in respect to certain of treaties ioB of 0 tho th diet the emperor ja is irresponsible the I 1 ho hereditary principle in regard to tho the head bead of the empire ii ia vested not is in a family but bat in ill ft dynasty tho dynasty I 1 whatever it may be which sits bits on th the a throne of tho the only responsible minister is tho the and except iu in diplomacy diploma oy oven even tho the chancellor is ia little more than the agent ol of tile tho federal council ilis ilia in duenke in this body depends strictly however not on his bi position as aa chun colter collor but on tho the number ot of votes which by of somo some other he can control it 11 as in tho case of 0 bismarck he be is ia also alao head of the elan cabinet he bo oiin cau control just jast nevoa toen teen votes no more laore while it he bo were a bavarian lie ho could control only sn six if a He hessian esian only throe three and so on bat oven even seventeen Boven teon votes is in far short ol of a majority in m the council mud and it follows tint that prussia with two thirds ot of the population ot of the empire can easily be outvoted by tho the other which havo oaly one third this inequality was wai a concession to the federal adoral pie extorted by tho the lenner lemier aid I 1 as it has more than onoe once baffled tho tha lots lorb schemes and paralyzed lite bis arm arin and as ai stated above ovell even though the Chano chancellor ollor carry cany tho the council with liim him any member 0 of the minority may inny up peor lear before tho diet and perou ailo it to reverse tho action of tho the it is ia trao that bo be can only persuade per saade and las hun no authority ever even over ever the deputies from hit hii own state elate but tho the privilege ia not tho the leas leaa a gross ano almly in ordinary ordia ary language the empire would be called a constitutional with a legislative chamber the diet a federal ministry tho the and a hereditary president with very limited powers the emperor the empire differs dif fars therefore ironi from franco france or of england ficat of all alii of course in being a federal and not a state but in the second botond place in ia having no responsible ministry it even tho chancellor has bas always lic political accountability to 11 iela lastly threatened threaten ad to resign when ho he has mot met with too vigorous vig orona but resistance to him Is ia technically resistance to the F federal ederae council and aside from the practical difficulty of punishing fifty eight persons there thera is a the inether and formidable ormi dable circumstance that these persons are authorized dale gates of their respective home hoina govern ments menta it is by the local that they can bo be called to account it at all but bat in the tha german states parlia government exists rather in form than in fact no 0 o that the cab cabinets inato and accordingly the delegates to the federal council represent in most oases cases the territorial princes pr inoes not their peoples peo the evils of such buch a system are therefore great even in theory and iu in practice they ore are even greater as is can be testified stifled te by any one ona who has noticed its v working for any length of 01 timo time prof tuttle in Il harpers arpero |