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  2. Reichsrat (Germany) - Wikipedia

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    It could introduce legislation for the Reichstag to consider and veto laws that it passed, but the vetoes could be overridden. The Reichsrat also played a role in administering and implementing Reich laws. After the Nazis took control in 1933, they centralized all power, including that of the states. The Reichsrat no longer had a function to ...

  3. Weimar Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Reich president had the power to decree that a proposed law be presented to the voters as a referendum before taking effect. The Reichsrat was entitled to object to laws passed by the Reichstag. If the objection could not be resolved, the Reich president at his discretion could call for a referendum or let the proposed law die.

  4. Enabling Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    ' Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich '), [1] was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg, leading to the rise of Nazi Germany. Critically, the Enabling Act allowed the Chancellor to ...

  5. German constitutional reforms of October 1918 - Wikipedia

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    Only the Reichstag and the Bundesrat could propose laws, and every proposal required the approval of both bodies in order to have legal force. A key power of the Reichstag was the right to approve the state budget, but on military expenditures, which were its largest item, it could vote only en bloc and for a period of seven years, restrictions ...

  6. Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich - Wikipedia

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    The Reichsrat, the upper body of Germany's parliament, whose members were appointed by the state governments to represent their interests in national legislation, had effectively been rendered impotent. The Reich government soon formally dissolved the Reichsrat on 14 February 1934, by passage of the "Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat." [9]

  7. Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat - Wikipedia

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    Reich government ministers were required to inform the Reichsrat of proposed legislation or administrative regulations and allow it to voice objections. The Reichsrat could also veto legislation that was passed by the Reichstag, and the veto only could be overridden by a two-thirds vote of the Reichstag. [1]

  8. German military law - Wikipedia

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    Memorial plaque in front of the former Reichskriegsgericht building. After World War I, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), abolished separate courts-martial by Article 106 of the Weimar Constitution, but they were revived by the Nazi German government after it had seized power during the Machtergreifung and enacted a special law on 12 May 1933.

  9. Bundesrat (German Empire) - Wikipedia

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    With the War Enabling Act, the Reichstag partially transferred its legislative co-determination rights to the Bundesrat. [8] The law was a breach of the constitution and controversial in constitutional law. Although the term "economic measures" was elastic, the Bundesrat made rather moderate use of the War Enabling Act.

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