A Grammar of History Author:John Robinson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1814 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: MODERN HISTORY. GERMANY. 186. Germany contains a great number of independent states, the princes of which are arbitrary in their own territories; but they form one collective body, which recognises the 'Emperor as its political head. 187. The emperor used to be chosen by nine princes called Electors ; the archbishops of Mentz, Treves, Cologne, and the electors of Bohemia, Saxony, Brandenburg, the Palatine, Bavaria, and Hanover. 188. The supreme power in Germany wai vested in the Diet of the Empire, which consisted of the Emperor or his commissary, the electoral college, the college of princes, and the college of imperial towns. 189. All public laws, and public measures, formed the subject of the separate deliberation of the electoral college, and the college of princes. 190. When jointly approved by them, the resolution was canvassed by the college of the free cities, and if agreed to, it became aplacitvm of the empire. 191. If approved finally by the Emperor, it became a condusum, or general law; but if disapproved by him, the resolution wa. s of no effect. 192. The first emperor of Germany, after the dignity became elective, was Comrade, count of B 2 Franconia, Franconia, whose reign was a continued scene of troubles. and who died A. D. 919. IQ3. His successor was Henry, surnamed the Fowler, whom he bad recommended to the Germanic body, and who possessed great abilities, and re-established the affairs of Germany. 194. His son Otho I., surnamed the Great, subjected Denmark and Bohemia to tribute, reunited Italy to the empire, and was the most powerful prince of his age. 1()5. Otho II., sur...« less