1. Bismarck's Domestic Policy: 1871-1890
According to the Prussian constitution, the parliament had neither the power to initiate legislation (unlike Canada's parliament which does have this power), nor reject legislation brought forth by the king or his ministers (the executive). ... In a Europe rich with competing ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, and socialism, he must have had a guiding political philosophy from which concrete policy would flow. ... Lutheranism especially-unlike Catholicism within the last century and a half-never claimed to lay down moral principles for public policy. ... As foreign minister, ...
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