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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (87535)	3/29/2003 12:17:20 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the notes on Imperial Germany. Looks to me, Hawk, as if it's a draw. You could argue it both ways. I, quite obviously, see your bolding, but the not bolded portions suggested a growing parliamentary power, a great many conflicts between the legislature and Kaiser. Clearly not a democracy in its full blown sense but not authoritarian in the sense there was no check. This sentence in the last paragraph suggests that large segments of the German population would welcome full fledged democracy and there existed some sort of tradition. As more-democratic parties came to dominate in the Reichstag, governing became more difficult for the Kaiser and his officials. During the later decades of the reign of Wilhelm II (r. 1888-1918), the empire's governing system experienced such difficulties that some conservatives advocated scrapping it, and democrats argued for a new, truly parliamentary system. So, I conclude one could argue this part both ways.