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Liebknecht, for the Spartacists, demanded the transfer of all power to the councils.

A compromise was offered.

Ditt mann swallowed the idea of the councils; the others agreed to work with Ebert, but only until the war was over.

Ebert replied by insisting on the principle of a constituent assembly to settle Germany s future.

The In dependents countered with an insistence on an all-socialist cabinet, sovereignty to repose in the councils, and no assembly until the social program was well under way.