The New German Constitution

Powers of the Reichstag 138 1. Powers of the Reichstag, as principal holder of sovereignty 138 2. Legislative powers; how laws are proposed and passed 139 3. Power of control; i...

Up to the autumn of 1918 Germany was under the Empire of the Constitution of April 16, 1871. Then in November, 1918, the work of Bismarck was suddenly overthrown and military de...

The first question with which the National Assembly found itself confronted and which had to be decided was whether the German Reich was to remain a federated state or whether i...

If the National Assembly has not completely realized the unitary state and has allowed traces of the federal régime to remain, it has fully admitted the principle of national so...

A democracy, above all one comprising seventy million inhabitants, no matter to what great extent it makes use of direct government, cannot nevertheless govern itself that way....

The second part of the Constitution of Weimar is devoted entirely to the fundamental rights and duties of Germans. It is the Declaration of Rights of the new Germany. Aside from...

The Constitution imposes on each German the duty of work. It is not sufficient in modern states, especially in one defeated in war, that every one therein merely work, unless th...

The territory of the Commonwealth consists of the territories of the German States. Other territories may be incorporated into the Commonwealth by national law, if their inhabit...

Privileges or discriminations due to birth or rank and recognized by law are abolished. Titles of nobility will be regarded merely as part of the name and may not be granted her...