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Independence towards the LeftAs well as appealing to voters with emotive and symbolic issues, Stresemann also attacked specific measures of the government and the so-called `republican parties—the parties of the Reichstag majority of 1917D which composed it. He opposed the plans for nationalization and factory councils. Characteristically unwilling to be content with mere opposition, however, he declared that the idea of the councils—that people should have a greater say in their lives than could be achieved just by belonging to political parties—was a healthy one.102 He took up the call for an economic parliament, representing employers as well as employees, agriculture, and the different branches of industry, and with the power to submit draft legislation direct to the Reichstag. In the form of the Reich Economic Council (Reichswirtschaftsrat) this proposal, which had wide support, became law.103 Stresemann attacked the Democrats alternately for sympathizing with socialist measures, such as nationalization, and failing to prevent them and thus failing to provide the `wall against Social Democracy which their middle-class voters had expected.104 He exploited the divisions within the DDP and enjoyed the spectacle of Friedberg criticizing the first draft of the Constitution which was the work of his new DDP colleague, Hugo Preu?.105 The most controversial feature of this draft was the proposed break-up of Prussia, which was opposed by the DVP together with, among others, the Prussian SPD and DDP, and was subsequently dropped.106 Stresemann also criticized the Constitution for its `formal democracy, which he contrasted with `liberalism.107 As an example, he gave theabsence of an effective second chamber as a check on the Reichstag majority. The task for Liberals, he declared, was no longer to defend thefreedom of the individual against a Conservative state but `against mechanical democratization and against Bolshevism.108 Stresemann also attacked the, in practice ver