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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 ...
The Reichsrat, the upper body of Germany's parliament whose members were appointed by the state governments to represent their interests in national legislation, was now rendered superfluous. Within two weeks, the Reich government formally dissolved the Reichsrat by enacting the "Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat" on 14 February 1934. [21]
Articles 68 to 77 specified how legislation was to be passed into law. Laws could be proposed by a member of the Reichstag or by the Reich government and were passed on the majority vote of the Reichstag. Proposed legislation had to be presented to the Reichsrat, and the latter body's objections were required to be presented to the Reichstag.
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]
Promulgation of the Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat in the Reichsgesetzblatt of 14 February 1934. Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat. 14 February 1934. The Reich government has passed the following law, which is hereby promulgated: § 1 (1) The Reichsrat is dissolved. (2) The representation of the states at the Reich ceases to exist. § 2
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The proposed changes would reduce the share of the county’s acreage with a residential designation to 5.8%, from the current 9.9%. At the same time, the share of acreage designated rural would ...
The Reichstag debated and approved or rejected taxes and expenditures and could propose laws in its own right. To become effective, all laws required the approval of both the Bundesrat and the Reichstag. Voting rights in Reichstag elections were advanced for the time, granting universal, equal, and secret suffrage to men above the age of 25. [2]