Note 21 — Chapter II · GERMAN DIPLOMACY AND STATECRAFT
J. H. (John Hartman) Morgan translation
The Bundesrath is a Second Chamber, a Cabinet or Executive Council, and a Federal Congress of State Governments all in one. Indeed, its resemblance to a Second Chamber is superficial. It can dissolve the Reichstag when it pleases. See Laband, Die Entwickelung des Bundesraths, Jahrbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts, 1907, Vol. I, p. 18, and also his Deutsches Staatsrecht, Vol. I, passim.