From Liberal Democracy to Fascism: Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic

by William E. Scheuerman and Peter C. Caldwell

The Weimar Republic - from 1919 until 1933, when Hitler came into power - witnessed crucial debates on law and politics. These debates are reexamined in this book. Were, for example, democratic rules and procedures an adequate basis for democracy, as Hugo Preuss and Hans Kelsen suggested? Or should constitutional law elaborate the deeper, basic principles embedded in the democratic constitution itself, as Hermann Heller argued? Was the president the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0391040987
• ISBN13: 9780391040984
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"