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In opposition to this man's policies, Eduard Lasker led a faction simply known as the Secession that later merged with the radical Free-Minded Party. This leader invoked a monarch's power to fill a legal "gap" per the so-called Lücken theory. After dropping his Anti-Socialist Laws to ally with the Centre Party, this leader enacted so-called State Socialism, which created the first modern (*) welfare state. Rudolf Virchow coined the name of one of this man's campaigns, which expelled Jesuits under the May Laws. This man justified greater military spending by arguing that "blood and iron" would decide history. For 10 points, what Prussian statesman became the first chancellor of a unified Germany? ■END■

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