Not exactly. For example, you couldn't form a government without one member each from the Army and Navy, and the Army grossly abused this power. And as I note

Not exactly. For example, you couldn't form a government without one member each from the Army and Navy, and the Army grossly abused this power. And as I noted elsewhere, a culture of acceptable political assassination was well established by then, so e.g. being too strongly anti-war would only get you killed.