title: State Symbols: The Quest for Legitimacy in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1959 (Studies in Central European Histories)
author:  Margarete Myers Feinstein 
description: <b>Margarete Myers Feinstein</b> is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University South Bend.
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  The Governments of Europe
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PREFACE.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PART I.—GREAT BRITAIN
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER II. THE CONSTITUTION SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER III. THE CROWN AND THE MINISTRY  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. PARLIAMENT: THE HOUSE OF COMMONS  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER V. PARLIAMENT: THE HOUSE OF LORDS  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. PARLIAMENT: ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, PROCEDURE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. POLITICAL PARTIES  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. JUSTICE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PART II.—GERMANY
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [CHAPTER IX. THE EMPIRE AND ITS CONSTITUTION  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER X. THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT: EMPEROR, CHANCELLOR, AND BUNDESRATH  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XI. THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT: REICHSTAG, PARTIES, JUDICIARY  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XII. THE CONSTITUTION OF PRUSSIA-THE CROWN AND THE MINISTRY  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIII. THE PRUSSIAN LANDTAG—LOCAL GOVERNMENT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIV. THE MINOR GERMAN STATES—ALSACE-LORRAINE
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PART 