The Wiemar constitution featured the following-
The president was elected every 7 years in which the German public would have elected. The chancellor was chosen by the president and needed a majority of support off the reichstag. The reichstag (parliament) was voted for by the German people using proportional representation. The German public were aloud to vote if they were over the age of 20, also then they were able to elect a president every 7 years.
Strengths:
It gave every German citizen equality under the law
All men and women over 20 were given the vote
It was a Democracy so was fair on all members of the German public
Weaknesses:
Proportional Representation- This meant The number of seats won was proportional to the number of votes received. However this lead to many small parties meaning coalitions were formed often. These meant disputes between parties.
Article 48- This article said that the president could issue decrees without the Reichstag. This article was used by Hitler later on to gain more power.
The inherent defects of weimar constitution were -:
1) Articlas 48 - This gave president all the power like to suspend civil rights and rule by decree.
2) Proportional representation - this made achieving a majority party an impossible task and led to coalitions.
yet democracy was indeed a young and fragile idea at that time in gremany which could not stand against Dictatorship....
What are the main features of Ethiopia constitution?
the main features of clifford constitution of 1922
the Bill of Rights
the bill of rights
From the city of Weimar, where the constitution of the republic was resolved.
It was a nickname. In 1919 the new German constitution was worked out in Weimar, Thuringia.
Article 48 of the Weimar constitution allowed the president to rule by decree at times of an emergency and gave the president the right to override the Reichstag and provide leadership "above party".Article 48 of the Weimar constitution made provision for rule by decree in an emergency.
Article 48 of the Weimar constitution allowed the president to rule by decree at times of an emergency and gave the president the right to override the Reichstag and provide leadership "above party".Article 48 of the Weimar constitution made provision for rule by decree in an emergency.Read more: What_was_Article_48_of_the_Weimar_Constitution
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The address of the Heritage Society Museum-Weimar is: 125 E Main Street, Weimar, TX 78962-2008
elective principle
A great many delegates from all over Germany attended the convention in Weimar in 1919 to help create a new constitution. The primary author of the constitution was Hugo Preuss, an attorney and liberal politician. Preuss was also a Jew, a fact that the Nazis were able to use to their advantage during their later campaigns to replace the Weimar Republic with an authoritarian Nazi state.