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Weimar Constitution

The constitution of Weimar Germany, including its emergency powers and impact on democratic stability.

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Jan 22, 2026

How did the Enabling Act passage procedurally occur in the Reichstag on March 23, 1933 and who voted for it?

The passed the on 23 March 1933 in a tightly staged session at the that combined legal procedure with concerted political intimidation and the exclusion of deputies, producing a supermajority that tra...

Jan 21, 2026

Which legal and institutional safeguards differentiate the U.S. system from Weimar Germany?

and differ in several concrete legal and institutional ways that historians and commentators point to when warning against facile comparisons: Weimar’s written emergency powers and fragile party syste...