Note 19 — Chapter VII · ToC

Art. 20.—In the first draft the Sovereign Reichstag consisted, not, as here, of the popular Chamber only, but of the Volkshaus—the popular Chamber, and the Staatenhaus—the representatives of the States. The latter, now known as the Reichsrat (see Art. 60), is no longer part of the sovereign body and has merely a suspensory veto against it (see Art. 74).