Word: reichstager
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...other. For instance in France direct personal suffrage involved the country in a ruinous revolution. In England no one claims that by a system of limited suffrage the political freedom of the people is in any degree curtailed. Moreover in Germany no salaries are paid the members of the Reichstag, which is the body directly representative of the interests of the common people. This is, of course, conducive to a purity of politics which in this country is unknown. The advocates of direct personal suffrage claim that the introduction of that system into Germany would be better for the country...
...defeat of Bismarck's budget in the Reichstag is not considered as decisive...
...hundred thousand marks has been voted by the German Reichstag for explorations in Central Africa...