The Unification of Germany and the German Constitutionalism. Drafting and Adoptionof the Constitution Germany 1871
This article discusses the first constitutional act in the history of a single German state the Constitution of 1871. Its main provisions are analyzed, it is also noted that the German Empire was a federal state, in which legislative centralization and administrative independence of its individual parts were combined. In this work, the early stages of the formation of a unified German state, which was called the empire at that time, were studied, the Constitution of 1871 endowed the united lands (Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, etc.) with certain independence, but in reality it was a union in which there was not even formal equality of members the state system of the newly created empire ensured the hegemony of the Prussian monarchy.