However, things were much different during the years of Canada's early confederation. ... The same fathers of confederation that came up with section 91 also created our famously irrelevant Senate, or the "chamber of sober thought,"" designed to counterbalance the effects of democracy in Canada (Simpson, 18). ... It seems Canada's opposition parties haven't learned from history that the Liberals can only be ousted from power by coalitions promising the moderation and compromise that Canadians have always preferred. ... Even in England, the system Canada is so much based upon,...

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encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. ... Furthermore, Wilhelm would need Biz to ensure that within the new North German Confederation, Prussia (aka Wilhelm) remained dominant. ... Biz had no feeling for the Junkers from whom he sprung." ... However, Biz maintained this alliance only as long as he thought he and Germany could derive benefits from the connection, and no longer. Actually, Biz had given the North German Confederation universal manhood suffrage in 1866 (which carried over to the German Imperial Consti...

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Moreover, the general political atmosphere in Europe did not allow new concessions to Italian balance when the powers were concerned with maintaining the balance of power and to prevent the setting of French hegemony in Europe again. ... He and Garibaldi had little political principle but only unification from below and under the flag of republicanism. ... In conclusion the question before Italy was foreign rule on independence, unity in federation, political change from above or social and economic revolution from below. ... Moreover, the war was to be achieved from above not below, by the mo...

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