The more the discussion was prolonged, the greater grew the number of Ministers to remain. But the unions intervened and demanded the resignation of the whole Cabinet. Bauer acceded. Nevertheless the Cabinet, which was thereupon constituted by Hermann Müller, retained several members of the preceding Cabinet, notably Hermann Müller himself, who from Minister of Foreign Affairs became Chancellor, and Bauer, who from Chancellor became Minister of the Treasury. The same procedure took place in the constitution of the Fehrenbach Cabinet. It was expected that a Ministry coming after elections that expressed a considerable change in the political situation, and after the Social Democrats withdrew from power and the People’s Party arrived, would translate this change by a more profound modification than usual of the Cabinet. But out of thirteen members five had been members of the preceding Cabinet. It does not seem, therefore, that the attempt made by the Constitution to regulate as precisely as it may be done the functioning of the government of the Cabinet has had up to now any appreciable effect on the practice of parliamentarism. Germany begins at a point that other countries, in which parliamentary government has operated for years, have hardly attained, if they have at all attained it. A concentrated Cabinet, a Cabinet of republican defence, a Cabinet of transition, a _bloc_ of the Centre--are these accidental deformities of the parliamentary régime, or are they forms toward which it must necessarily tend? We are told in Germany that these practices, obviously little compatible with the conception of parliamentarism or with the regulations provided in their Constitution, are to be explained by the state of revolution in which the country still finds itself; and that they will disappear if some day Germany recovers its equilibrium, and make place for a correct and complete application of constitutional rule. SECTION IV THE REICHSRAT The Reichsrat is placed by the Constitution by the side of the Reichstag, the President and the Cabinet, and has as its rôle the representation, after these, of the States of the Reich in legislative and administrative matters. 1.--GENERAL FEATURES OF THE REICHSRAT. The Reichsrat constitutes a bond of co-operation between the Reich and the States. Whereas the will of the whole German people taken together is manifested through the Reichstag, the Reichsrat translates the will of the States, such as it is conceived by the governments or cabinets of these States. The Reichsrat is the representative in the Reich of the federalist principle. It is the federalist organ of the Reich. In this rôle it joins the unitary organs and completes them.