Participation of state governments in the formation of all-German constitutions of the 19th-20th centuries

Abstract

The article traces the contribution of the governments of the German states to the formation of national constitutions in Germany in the 19th-20th centuries. It is concluded that state governments and their delegates often played a key role in determining the character, structure and content of constitutions, which largely established the federal vector of German statehood. The active participation of state governments in the political life and institualization of Germany significantly affected the specifics of federalism, within the framework of which all-German representative bodies of the states were formed purely from government delegates.