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Mind Map by jack Latimer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jack Latimer
over 9 years ago
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Weimar constitution
- After Germany lost the first world war, the Kaiser fled and a new democratic government of Germany
was declared
- in February 1919 at the small town of Weimar the Weimar the Weimar constitution was formed
- every german citizen was allowed freedom of speech, religion and equality
- All men and women over 20 were given the right to vote
- there was an elected president appointed by the reichstag
- the Reichstag made laws and appointed goverment
- the German politician system worked where every voter voted for a party not an MP this meant that it was easy to get a seat in the reichstag
- Article 48 said that in an emergency the president did not need the agreement of the Reichstag and could issue decrees the problem was it did not specify what an emergency was.
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