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In the Bundesrat Prussia held 17 places out of a total of 58. For a law to be put forward there must be less than 14 votes against it otherwise it would be vetoed. Since Prussia supported Bismarck this meant that if he was against a law he could nearly always count on the Prussian majority to veto it. One source described this constituency as “An ( Read more... )