Crossword-Solution: BUNDESRAT 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Politically, there is no such place as "Germany." There are the twenty-five States, Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, etc., which make up the "German Empire," but there is no such political entity as "Germany." These twenty-five States have votes in the Bundesrat, a body which may be said to correspond remotely to our United States Senate.

But in practice the Reichstag is nothing but a debating society because of the preponderating power of the Bundesrat, or upper chamber.

The members of the Bundesrat are named by the Princes of the twenty-five States making up the German Empire.

Prussia, which has seventeen votes, may name seventeen members of the Bundesrat or one member, who, however, when he votes casts seventeen votes.

The fundamental constitution of the German Empire is not changed, as with us, by a separate body but is changed in the same way that an ordinary law is passed; except that if there are fourteen votes against the proposed change in the Bundesrat the proposition is defeated, and, further, the constitution cannot be changed with respect to rights expressly granted by it to anyone of the twenty-five States without the assent of that State.