Footnote 292: A. Lebon, La constitution allemande et l'hégémonie prussienne, in Annales de l'École Libre des Sciences Politiques, Jan., 1887.[(Back)]
Footnote 293: Arts. 61, 63, 64. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 345-347.[(Back)]
Footnote 294: The first of the Prussian military treaties, that concluded with Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, dates from 1861; the last, that with Brunswick, from 1885.[(Back)]
Footnote 295: Howard, The German Empire, Chap. 12; Laband, Das Staatsrecht des deutschen Reiches, §§ 95-113; C. Morhain, De l'empire allemand (Paris, 1886), Chap. 15.[(Back)]
Footnote 296: Laband, Das Staatsrecht des deutschen Reiches, §§ 11-13.[(Back)]
Footnote 297: Art. 78. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 351.[(Back)]
Footnote 298: Art. ii. Dodd, Modern Constitutions, I., 330. It will be observed that the title is not "Emperor of Germany." The phrase selected was intended to denote that the Emperor is only primus inter pares in a confederation of territorial sovereigns (Landesherren.) He is a territorial sovereign only in Prussia.[(Back)]
Footnote 299: Arts. 53-58 of the Prussian Constitution. See p. [253].[(Back)]
Footnote 300: R. C. Brooks, Lèse Majesté, in The Bookman, June, 1904.[(Back)]
Footnote 301: Howard, The German Empire, Chap. 12; Laband, Deutsches Reichsstaatsrecht, 345-359.[(Back)]