I beg you do not interfere with the Council.

I consider it a kind of Palladium for our future, a great guarantee for the future of Germany in its present form." Now, from the peculiar character of the Council arose a very noticeable omission; just as there was no Upper House (though the Prussian Conservatives strongly desired to see one), so, also, there was no Federal Ministry.

In every modern State there is a Council formed of the heads of different administrative departments; this was so universal that it was supposed to be essential to a constitution.

In the German Empire we search for it in vain; there is only one responsible Minister, and he is the Chancellor, the representative of Prussia and Chairman of the Council.

The Liberals could not reconcile themselves to this strange device; they passed it with reluctance in the stress of the moment, but they have never ceased to protest against it.