644.

--National Council, composition and powers, 645-646.

--Parties, rivalries, 631-632;
dictatorship of Franco, 633-634;
elections of 1906, 633;
and revolution of 1910, 639-642.

--Pedro IV., contest with Miguelists, 630.

--Pombal, reforms, 629.

--President, status and powers, 644.

--Progressive Party, 631-634.

--Regenerador Party, 631-634.

--Revolution of 1910, origins, 639;
character and results, 640-641.

--_Rotativos_, 632-633.

--Septembrist Party, 631.

--Thomar, Count of, ministry, 631.

President, of France, 303-312;
of Switzerland, 422-424;
of Portugal, 644.

Proportional Representation, in Wuertemberg, 278;
movement for in France, 320-324;
in Switzerland, 419, 433;
in Belgium, 543-545;
in Denmark, 563.

Province, in Prussia, 268-270;
in Italy, 384;
in Austria, 485-487;
in Holland, 532-533;
in Belgium, 550-551;
in Spain, 627.

Prussia (see also Germany and Austria):--
--_Abgeordnetenhaus_, composition, 258;
electoral system 258-260;
question of electoral reform, 260-263;
session and powers, 263-264.

--_Abtheilungen_, in Landtag, 264.

--Administration, reform measures of Stein and Hardenberg, 265;
reforms of Bismarck, 266;
general principles, 267;
the province and its government, 268-270;
the government district, 270-271;
the circle, 271-272;
the commune, 272-273.

--Amendment, of constitution, 252.

--_Amtsgerichte_, 243.

--Austria, war with, 200.

--_Bezirksausschuss_, 270.

--Charlottenburg, constitution promulgated at, 251.

--Circle. See _Kreis_.

--Civil List, 253.

--Committees, in Landtag, 264.

--Commune, organization, 272-273.

--Constitution, obstacles to establishment, 248;
promulgated, 250;
nature, 251;
amendment, 252.

--Crown, status and power, 252.

--Diet, of 1847, 249.

--Elections, present system, 258-260;
question of reform, 260-263.

--Franchise, 258-260.

--Frederick William III., and constitutionalism, 248-250.

--Hardenberg, reform measures, 247-265.

--_Herrenhaus_, original provisions of constitution concerning, 257;
law of 1853, 257;
composition to-day, 257-258.

--Interpellation, in _Landtag_, 265.

--Judiciary, 243-244.

--_Kreis_, organization, 271.

--_Kreisausschuss_, 271.

--_Kreistag_, 271.

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