to a Bundesrat (Federal Council), which participated in legislation on an equal footing with the Reichstag. Prussia was entitled to 17 out of 43 votes, which secured it a hegemonic position. No constitutional amendment could be passed against Prussia's will, since it required a two-thirds majority to change the Constitution (Article 78). The allocation of votes by state was laid out in Article 6.

The individual states were required to vote collectively (Prussia, for