To: Reily
It was a constitutional monarchy even then. Parliament existed and its members were elected even though the franchise was severely limited. Same was with Germany and Austro-Hungary. At the start of WWI the only republics in Europe were France, Switzerland and San Marino.
59 posted on
01/01/2006 11:38:17 AM PST by
A. Pole
(If the lettuce cutters were paid $10 more per hour, the lettuce head would cost FIVE CENTS more!)
To: A. Pole
Same was with Germany and Austro-Hungary. At the start of WWI the only republics in Europe were France, Switzerland and San Marino.
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Portugal was a republic since 1910.
To: A. Pole
Though the power of the Austro-Hungarian & Imperial German parliaments were consideriably limited when compared to the UK parliament.
And the pre-WWI Russian Duma isn't really worth talking about.
89 posted on
01/01/2006 1:48:28 PM PST by
Reily
(Reilly (Dr Doom))
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