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Emergency powers were indeed reduced. But more importantly, the post-war constitution was not allowed to be amended in ways that would contradict its "liberal
by azernik 8y ago
Emergency powers were indeed reduced.
But more importantly, the post-war constitution was not allowed to be amended in ways that would contradict its "liberal democratic basic order" (banning a rerun of the Enabling Act).
- mafribe 8y agoEmergency Acts (Notstandsgesetze) were passed in 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Emergency_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Emergency_Acts
- azernik 8y agoWhich are much more limited than Weimar emergency powers. Only specific freedoms can be limited (certain types of privacy, movement, and career), limited legislative powers devolve onto a proportionally-assembled subset of the full legislature rather than to the executive, and the federation can only take control of state forces in emergencies that cross state borders. Plus a specific exception that says a state of emergency can't be called against labor disputes.
- mafribe 8y agoYes, and that fits perfectly with: Grundgesetz = Weimar-debugged.
- azernik 8y agoYup! It's been really interesting listening to German radio this last year, as we're passing 100th anniversaries of assorted formative events of the Weimar era. The idea of the Bundesrepublik being the successor of the republican Reich isn't just a legal concept, it's a very deeply held view (at least among the political and journalistic classes).