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11.   Karl August Baron von Hardenberg, "On the Reorganization of the Prussian State" (September 12, 1807)
Karl August Baron von Hardenberg (1750-1822), who was influential in the Prussian government before....
12.   Karl Baron vom und zum Stein, Nassau Memorandum on Administrative Reform in Prussia (June 1807)
In this memorandum, Karl vom und zum Stein (1757-1831), who served briefly (1807-08) as chief minister....
13.   King Frederick William III and his Ministers Stein and Schrötter, "Ordinance for All Cities of the Prussian Monarchy" (November 19, 1808)
By this edict, urban self-government on the part of property-owning male town-dwellers assumed nineteenth-century liberal form. It broke with earlier conceptions of representation by merchant corporations....
14.   The Prussian Finance Edict of 1810, signed by State Chancellor Hardenberg and King Frederick William III (October 27, 1810)
Proclaimed together with an edict embodying Hardenberg’s plan to reorganize the Prussian government....
15.   The Prussian Law on Freedom of Trade, signed by State Chancellor Hardenberg and King Frederick William III (September 7, 1811)
This important law reflected the Prussian state’s urgent need for a broader stream of tax revenue from the commercial-industrial sector, and it followed from Hardenberg’s....
16.   Frederick William III's Call for National Mobilization, "To My People" (March 17, 1813)
Following Napoleon’s defeat in Russia in 1812, there was growing pressure in Germany for a war to expel the French. This eventually led to the Battle of Leipzig (1813), where Prussia and Austria....
17.   Edict on Instituting a Popular Representative Body, issued by Frederick William III and State Chancellor Hardenberg (May 22, 1815)
This brief but influential proclamation, issued during the Congress of Vienna, promised “the Prussian....
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