1. Bismark
... local matters, including raising their own taxation. But the federal government controlled the armed forces and was responsible for foreign policy, civil and criminal law, banking, press regulations and taxation for imperial purposes. Some of the federal rights were exercised by the monarch, who appointed the chancellor and ... disliked them also because they were so international an Bismarck despised all outside interference. In 1878 Bismarck passed in the Reichstag the anti socialist law which deemed the socialist party banned, meeting and any socialist newspapers became illegal. along ...
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