Sort of. But also a totally different situation because it's possible in a representative system to not have a coalition government, and Germany had a legal provision to name a chancellor. The extralegal action by the brownshirts pushed hard enough for the legal step of naming Hitler chancellor, and then from that step came a woeful se…
Sort of. But also a totally different situation because it's possible in a representative system to not have a coalition government, and Germany had a legal provision to name a chancellor. The extralegal action by the brownshirts pushed hard enough for the legal step of naming Hitler chancellor, and then from that step came a woeful set of legal and extralegal steps.
Just saying that the main "crisis" there was not being able to form a government for a long time, which is irrelevant here, and we don't have any similar step to naming a Chancellor that is even possible. So we do have some protection from those circumstances.
I was referring to the rule by decree by Ebert in the early 1920s, which was hit upon by a series of governments to justify their extralegal rule at times. The problems in Weimar didn't start with Brownshirts, they just ended up as the inadvertent beneficiaries of mistakes made at the start.
Sort of. But also a totally different situation because it's possible in a representative system to not have a coalition government, and Germany had a legal provision to name a chancellor. The extralegal action by the brownshirts pushed hard enough for the legal step of naming Hitler chancellor, and then from that step came a woeful set of legal and extralegal steps.
Just saying that the main "crisis" there was not being able to form a government for a long time, which is irrelevant here, and we don't have any similar step to naming a Chancellor that is even possible. So we do have some protection from those circumstances.
I was referring to the rule by decree by Ebert in the early 1920s, which was hit upon by a series of governments to justify their extralegal rule at times. The problems in Weimar didn't start with Brownshirts, they just ended up as the inadvertent beneficiaries of mistakes made at the start.