Saxe-Meiningen; and seven
principalities: Lippe, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen,
Schaumburg-Lippe, Reuss Aelterer Linie, Reuss Juengerer Linie, and
Waldeck-Pyrmont.

[Footnote 357: The best survey in English of the
governments of the German states is that in Lowell,
Governments and Parties, I., Chap. 6. Fuller and
more recent is G. Combes de Lestrade, Les
monarchies de l'empire allemand (Paris, 1904). The
most elaborate treatment of the subject is to be
found in an excellent series of studies edited by
H. von Marquardsen and M. von Seydel under the
title Handbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts der
Gegenwart in Monographien (Freiburg and Tuebingen,
1883-1909). A new series of monographs, comprising
substantially a revision of this collection, is at
present in course of publication by J. C. B. Mohr
at Tuebingen. The texts of the various constitutions
are printed in F. Stoerk, Handbuch der deutschen
Verfassungen (Leipzig, 1884).]

*262. The Preponderance of Prussia.*--From whatever angle one approaches
German public affairs, the fact that stands out with greatest
distinctness is the preponderant position occupied by the kingdom of
Prussia. How it was that Prussia became the virtual creator of the
Empire, and how it is that Prussia so dominates the Imperial
government that that government and the Prussian are at times all but
inextricable, has already been pointed out.[358] Wholly apart from the
sheer physical fact that 134,616 square miles of Germany's 208,780,
and 40,163,333 people of the Empire's 64,903,423, are Prussian, the
very conditions under which the Imperial organization of the present
day came into being predetermined that Prussia and things Prussian
should enjoy unfailing pre-eminence in all that pertains to German
government and politics. Both because they are extended immediately
over a country almost two-thirds as large as France, and because of
their peculiar relation to the political system of the Empire, the
institutions of Prussia call for somewhat detailed consideration.

[Footnote 358: See pp. 200-201, 207.]

II. THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM IN PRUSSIA

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