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| | National Theater where the German Constitution was written |
 | | To Americans, the Weimar Republic represents a great achievement, since from the American point of view, the Great War was fought "to make the world safe for democracy." As it turned out, the Weimar Republic of the Social Democrats was opposed by many factions of the German people, and was doomed from the start. |
 | | The fatal flaw in the Weimar constitution was the infamous Article 48, drafted by Social Democrat Max Weber, which gave the Chancellor the right to rule by decree for short periods during a crisis. |
 | | By 1924, barely 5 years after the ink was dry on the constitution, the Nazi party was holding rallies in the National Theater building in a symbolic gesture to show their opposition to the Weimar Republic. |
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