1. Bismarck's Domestic Policy: 1871-1890
... he and Germany could derive benefits from the connection, and no longer. Actually, Biz had given the North German Confederation universal manhood suffrage in 1866 (which carried over to the German Imperial Constitution of 1871) believing that if all men in the Confederation-instead of just the wealthy-could vote, the masses would vote dumbly for Conservatives-rather than the liberals-and that these would give unquestioning ... it. Biz, as so often, had got out of one difficulty only to find himself in a greater. He had carried universal suffrage in order to ruin the liberals, his oppone...
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