Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is administered. The seven princes or counsellors are themselves elected. Their offices indeed are hereditary in families, but the council chooses the individual and not only fills up vacan- cies occasioned by death, but will ever take upon itself to remove an obnoxious person and proceed to a new election. The members of this council also hold executive offices, one being first minis- ter, another a commander of the army, and so on. Any individual of the privileged fa- milies, even a woman or an infant, is eligible to be raised either to the go- vernment of a particular state or to be head of the general government. When, as it very frequently happens, a woman