Footnote 361: E. Meier, Reform der Verwaltungsorganisation unter Stein und Hardenberg (Leipzig, 1881); J. R. Seeley, Life and Times of Stein, 3 vols. (Boston, 1879), Pt. III., Chaps. 3-4, Pt. V., Chaps. 1-3.[(Back)]
Footnote 362: The system was created by royal patent June 5, 1823.[(Back)]
Footnote 363: See p. [198].[(Back)]
Footnote 364: Known technically as Versammlung zur Vereinbarung der preussischen Verfassung.[(Back)]
Footnote 365: The confusion of constitutional and ordinary statutory law inherent in this arrangement has influenced profoundly the thought of German jurists.[(Back)]
Footnote 366: On the establishment of constitutionalism in Prussia see (in addition to works mentioned on p. [201]) P. Matter, La Prusse et la révolution de 1848, in Revue Historique, Sept.-Oct., 1902; P. Devinat, Le mouvement constitutionnel en Prusse de 1840 à 1847, ibid., Sept.-Oct. and Nov.-Dec., 1911; Klaczko, L'agitation allemande et la Prusse, in Revue des Deux Mondes, Dec., 1862, and Jan., 1863; C. Bornhak, Preussische Staats-und Rechtsgeschichte (Berlin, 1903); H. von Petersdorff, König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. (Stuttgart, 1900); and H. G. Prutz, Preussische Geschichte, 4 vols. to 1888 (Stuttgart, 1900-1902). For full bibliography see Cambridge Modern History, XI., 893-898.[(Back)]
Footnote 367: As is true in governmental systems generally, by no means all of the essential features of the working constitution are to be found in the formal documents, much less in the written constitution alone. In Prussia ordinances, legislative acts, and administrative procedure, dating from both before and after 1850, have to be taken into account continually if one would understand the constitutional order in its entirety.[(Back)]
Footnote 368: Dupriez, Les Ministres, I., 350.[(Back)]
Footnote 369: Arts. 3-42. Robinson, Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia, 27-34.[(Back)]
Footnote 370: Lowell, Governments and Parties, I., 286.[(Back)]