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Until 1871 Germany consisted of 39 separate states, each with its own government. in 1852 a handful of the German states had a democracy-in-the-making, but most were under autocratic rule. The various German states (which until 1866 included Austria) sent representatives to meetings of the German Confederation, but it had very few powers and mainly urged and exhorted the individual states to do certain things and not to do others.

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