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	(HIS,P) Weimar Constitution
		Regarding constitution disputes within a state, where no court is responsible to deal with, as well as in disputes of non-private matter between various states or between a state and the Reich, the Reich state court, at the request of one party, decides in the name of the Reich, unless another Reich court is responsible.
		Constitutional changes become valid only if at least two thirds of the members are present and at least two thirds of the present members vote in favour of the amendment.
		Formally the Weimar Constutution was not abrogated; factually it was, by the Ermachtigungsgesetz of March 3rd 1933.
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	Weimar Constitution . Enpsychlopedia
		The Constitution of the German State (German: Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches), usually known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung) was the constitution that governed the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).
		The fundamental tenet of the Weimar Constitution was that Germany was to be a republic on the parliamentary model with a parliament elected using proportional representation.
		Constitutional amendments were proposed as ordinary legislation, but for such an amendment to take effect, it was required that two thirds or more of the Reichstag members be present, and that at least two thirds of the members present voted in favor of the legislation.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Weimar_Constitution (3206 words)

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		The area passed in the division of 1485 to the Ernestine branch of the Wettin dynasty and remained with that branch after the redivision of the Wettin lands in 1547, when Elector John Frederick I of Saxony was captured by Holy Roman...
		In its early years, the Weimar Republic was troubled by postwar economic and financial problems and political instability, but it had recovered considerably by the late 1920s.
		Weimar Republic (1919–33) The republic of Germany formed after the end of World War I. On 9 November 1918 a republic was proclaimed in Berlin under the moderate socialist Friedrich Ebert.
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		The Weimar constitution (German: Weimarer Verfassung) was the document that governed the short-lived Weimar Republic (1919-1933) of Germany.
		Following the end of WWI, a German National Assembly gathered in the town of Weimar, in the state of Thuringia, in January of 1919 to write a constitution for the Reich.
		The fundamentals of the constitution were known: It was to be a Democratic, Federal Republic, with a President and Parliament to govern it.
	weimar-constitution.borgfind.com (441 words)

	::Weimar Republic::
		Weimar Republic's new constitution was adopted in August 1919.
		Many historians put the blame for Weimar's future political problems on this constitution in that, ironically, it was too fair as it included everybody regardless of their political beliefs.
		The constitution was to play a major part in the years 1930 -1933 when the president, Hindenburg, appointed and sacked chancellors seemingly at will.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /weicons.htm (512 words)

	The Constitution of the Weimar Republic
		When studying the Weimar era it is important that you are aware of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the constitution as the Parliamentary structure was used by Hitler and the NSDAP as they rose from obscurity to power.
		The Weimar Republic was announced following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in November 1918.
		The Reichstag was the main legislative body under the Weimar constitution.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /ASLevel_History/week2_theweimarconsitution.htm (1514 words)

	Weimar Online Travel Guide
		Weimar remained largely quiet during the Peasant's War: Elector Johann "der Bestaendige" - the Steadfast - could reorganize his troops near Weimar, in order to take part in the siege of Muehlhausen.
		In the palace church, from 1708 to 1717 the Weimar court society had the pleasure to listen to the organist and conductor Johann Sebastian Bach.
		The name remained for the Weimar Constitution and the Weimar Republic, the Members of Parliament soon moved on from the peace and quiet of Weimar to the unrest of Berlin.
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	The Weimar Constitution
		Thus a new German National Assembly met in the town of Weimar in February 1919 and the post-war German state acquired its first democratic constitution six months later.
		It was a federal constitution for the German confederacy of seventeen states large and small comprising some 62 million Germans (1925 census).
		And such was the case in Weimar Germany as political extremism and economic collapse helped pave the way for the destruction of the 1919 constitution under the hammer blows of Nazism in 1933.
	web.jjay.cuny.edu /~jobrien/reference/ob13.html (1452 words)

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		Although the constitution makers expected the Chancellor to be the head of government, they included emergency provisions that would ultimately undermine the Republic.
		During the stable periods, Weimar Chancellors formed legislative majorities based on coalitions primarily of the Social Democrats, the Democratic Party, and the Catholic Center Party, all moderate parties that supported the Republic.
		The constitution mandated considerable gender equality, but tradition and the civil and criminal codes were still strongly patriarchal and contributed to perpetuating inequality.
	www.facinghistorycampus.org /Campus/weimar.nsf/FormPathDocuments/57553EE438A0FF0085256CF4007392B6?opendocument (2120 words)

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		The emergency constitution was modeled on the imperial constitution, with a president elected by the assembly in place of the emperor.
		The constitution was considered to provide for parliamentary government with some modifications: for example, the president was given the right of dissolution of the Reichstag and appointment of the chancellor.
		Since from 1920 on neither the Weimar Coalition alone nor the parties of the Right alone could muster a majority in the Reichstag, owing to the strength of the USPD and KPD, the great parliamentary problem of the Weimar Republic was the relationship between the SPD and the DVP.
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		Disharmony in the constitutional assembly led to the heterogeneous character of the Weimar Constitution.
		The literature on Weimar constitutionalism has divided the history and function of Article 48 into two periods: During the first five years it served to legitimize the government's violence against the radical leftist opposition that was not involved in the constitutional compromise.
		In Weimar constitutional theory and politics the immobility of parliament caused by the end of the coalition was interpreted as a constitutional breakdown (“Verfassungsstörung”) (Kreutzer 1965, 17).
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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.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /EasternGermany/Weimar/index.html (1165 words)

	The Weimar Republic, 1918-33: German History
		The Weimar Republic, proclaimed on November 9, 1918, was born in the throes of military defeat and social revolution.
		The government, composed of members from the assembly, came to be called the Weimar coalition and included the SPD; the German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei--DDP), a descendant of the Progressive Party of the prewar period; and the Center Party.
		In mid-1919 the assembly ratified the constitution of the new Weimar Republic, so named because its constitution was drafted in the small city where the poets Goethe and Schiller had lived.
	www.germanculture.com.ua /library/bl_weimar_republic.htm (379 words)

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		The Constitution of the Weimar Republic was adopted in August 1919.
		The Weimar Constitution guaranteed the right to local self-government, a "dignified existence", economic and religious freedoms, freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and the right to form trade unions.
		The Constitution of the Weimar Republic by Sam Vaknin The Weimar Republic was established in February 1919 in defeated Germany and lasted until March 1933, when it was replaced with Hitler's Third Reich.
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	Weimar Germany and the Rise of the Nazis
		The colors adopted by the constitution symbolized the idea of a "greater Germany," which was to include Austria; but the incorporation of Austria into the republic was opposed by the Allies, and Austria remained a separate state.
		The Weimar Republic represented a compromise: German conservatives and industrialists had transferred power to the Social Democrats to avert a possible Bolshevik-style takeover; the Social Democrats, in turn, had allied with demobilized officers of the Imperial Army to suppress the revolution.
		Goethe's Weimar was contrasted with the Prussian Germany of authoritarianism, military swagger, and imperialism.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Weimar.html (4769 words)

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		This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off.
		Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law.
		In their general introduction, the editors place the Weimar debate in the context of the history and politics of the Weimar Republic and the struggle for constitutionalism in Germany.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8770.html (622 words)

	The Weimar Constitution
		At the end of the First World War, the Kaiser was kicked out of Germany, and in 1919 the Weimar Republic was set up.
		In January 1919, elections were held for a new Reichstag and in February 1919, in the town of Weimar, a new government was agreed.
		The Constitution was a brave attempt to set up a democratic government… All Germans had equal rights, including the vote.
	www.johndclare.net /Weimar2.htm (394 words)

	History of Weimar Republic - Germany 1919-1933 - and the rising of Hitler
		The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (German "Weimarer Republik").
		Although technically, the 1919 constitution was never entirely invalidated until after World War II, the legal measures taken by the Nazi government in 1933 that are commonly known as Gleichschaltung in fact destroyed all mechanisms provided for by a typical democratic system.
		October 1918, the 1871 constitution was finally amended to make the Reich a parliamentary democracy, which had been refused for half a century: the Chancellor was henceforth responsible to Parliament, the Reichstag, and no longer to the Emperor.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_weimar_republic.shtml (2090 words)

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		The Weimar Constitution attempted to create a federal republic which tried to combine aspects of persidential and parliamentary systems with a commitment to social justice.
		Weimar Germany: The Republic of the Reasonable by Paul Bookbinder (Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York) 1996, pp.240-245.
		The Weimar Republic is often described as a socialist democracy.
	www.facinghistory.org /campus/weimar.nsf/PrimarySource2/127B6BB59A77DC9085256D1700556142?OpenDocument (1795 words)

	Weimar Republic Essays
		The collapse of the Weimar Republic and democratic government in Germany occurred for a variety of reasons.
		The Weimar constitution allowed for misuse of power and for smaller, extremist, and anti-democratic parties to disrupt the work of the Reichstag.
		The Collapse of the Weimar Republic from 1933 to 1934.
	www.bookrags.com /essay/Weimar_Republic (129 words)

	Collapse of the Weimar Republic
		The good days of the Weimar Republic came to an end in the late 1920s, especially as the depression began to take a hold on the German economy.
		This seemed to be a significant trend because it brought the Weimar coalition (Social Democrats, Democrats and the Center parties) to within six seats of an absolute majority.
		The Weimar Republic appeared to be enjoying its halcyon days, thanks largely to the foreign policy achievements of Gustav Stresemann.
	mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/23weimar_collapse.html (3671 words)

	ICL - Germany Index
		All amendments including those of 2003 have been incorporated into this consolidated ICL edition of the constitution.
		Following a recent book publication, the text is presented in PDF format.
		13 Nov 1995: 43rd Constitutional amendment to continuously raise allowances of members of parliament fails to pass the Federal Council.
	www.servat.unibe.ch /law/icl/gm__indx.html (182 words)

	Germany History
		In 1919, under the Weimar constitution, Friedrich Ebert was named as the first German President, but the Weimar republic was not accepted by the National Socialist German Workers' Party and German Communist Party.
		The German government encouraged the population to passive resistance and later the occupation became a loss-making deal for French government.
		A centralized totalitarian state was established, no longer based on the liberal Weimar constitution.
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	Weimar Republic and Third Reich
		A provisional government of socialists is established, nominally responsible to the workers’ and soldiers' councils; until Dec. 29 it includes the radical USPD as well as the moderate SPD.
		Germany is also forced to limit its army to 100,000 men; forbidden to keep troops in its Western provinces (the "demilitarized" Rhineland); required to make heavy reparations payments for damage caused in the war; and barred from the League of Nations.
		The parties of the "Weimar Coalition" lose their Reichstag majority in national elections; they never again have enough seats to form a majority coalition.
	dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu /materials/weimar.htm (1823 words)

	The Weimar Republic
		The assembly met in Weimar, and the new republic became known as the Weimar Republic.
		The constitution established a democratic federal republic in August 1919.
		The chancellor and the cabinet members were appointed by the president, but they could be removed from office by the Reichstag.
	www.cybergerman.addr.com /weimar.html (338 words)

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