Weimar
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- Weimar
- 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.
- It was too dangerous to make a declaration in Berlin where there had just been a revolt by a Communist group called
- A Bill of Rights guaranteed every German citizen freedom of speech and religion, and equality under the law.
- All men and women over the age of 20 were given the vote.
- The Reichstag made the laws.
- There was an elected president and an elected Reichstag
- All men and women over the age of 20 were given the vote.
- Proportional representation
- Article 48
- In an emergency, the president did not need the agreement of the Reichstag, but could issue decrees.
- 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.
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