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Parliament

Germany · Government / Reich, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1871Date range
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Chronological records

1871

Otto Eduard Leopold Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen1871

Government / Reich, 2nd

The new empire has a Parliament with two houses, the lower house, or Reichstag, is elected by universal male suffrage, however, the original constituencies drawn in 1871 were never redrawn to reflect the growth of urban areas

Names involved

Otto Eduard Leopold Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen

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