The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . affairs,Alsace and Lorraine, the constitution, standing orders, and railwaytariffs. The Bundesrath also exercises the functions of our SupremeCourt, in legal and constitutional controversies between States. The Reichstag is composed of three hundred and ninety-sevendeputies elected by universal suffrage for a term of five years, therepresentation of ea
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . affairs,Alsace and Lorraine, the constitution, standing orders, and railwaytariffs. The Bundesrath also exercises the functions of our SupremeCourt, in legal and constitutional controversies between States. The Reichstag is composed of three hundred and ninety-sevendeputies elected by universal suffrage for a term of five years, therepresentation of each State being determined by its population. Theresult naturally is that the Reichstag is mainly Prussian. The mem-bers receive 3,000 marks ($714) for each session, with a deduction of THE GERMAN EMPIRE 287 twentj^ marks for each days absence. They receive also free passesover the raihoads. The Reichstag has equal powers of initiating leg-islation with the Buntlesrath, and the two bodies have constitutionaljurisdiction over many things which in the United States fall withinthe province of the several States. Laws, when passed by the im-perial legislature, are administered by the various State governmentsunder the emj)erors Gun Factory at the Krupp Works, Essen Germany enjoys uniform codes of civil and criminal law through-out the empire. The courts are of three grades, with successively widerjurisdiction and powers in cases of appeal from lower coin-ts, thehighest being the Supreme Court of one hundred members {Reichs-gericht), Avhich sits at Leipzig. Bavaria has a supreme court of itsown {Oberstes Landesgericht), composed of twenty-two members,with revising jurisdiction over the lower Bavarian courts. The Ger-man jury consists of twelve members, and usually three judges occu-py the bench. The shameful entanglement with politics which dis-
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