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The first official constitution of the Republic of Korea (commonly referred to as South Korea) was based on the Weimar Constitution. [48] It also provided much of the wording for the Constitution of Latvia, which is seen as a synthesis between the Weimar Constitution and Westminster system used in the United Kingdom.
During the Weimar period, the protection of fundamental rights was predominantly understood to be the task not of the constitutional courts but of the administrative courts. Article 107 of the constitution provided for the establishment of such a court, but it was not set up until 1941. Accordingly, the court remained ineffective. [citation needed]
Following the introduction of a new constitution (significantly amended later in the year) by an assembly elected in January, [2] and the Weimar Constitution in 1919, Württemberg was re-established as a member state of the German Reich.
Four changes in state boundaries occurred following the implementation of the Weimar Constitution on 14 August 1919: [13] The Free State of Thuringia was created on 1 May 1920 from Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Gotha and Reuss.
The Weimar National Assembly, which was responsible for writing a constitution for a new, democratic Germany following the overthrow of the Hohenzollern monarchy at the end of World War I, had the task of producing a document that would be accepted by both conservatives who wanted to keep the semi-constitutional monarchy of the Empire and people on the left who were looking for a socialist or ...
The Weimar constitution created a semi-presidential system in which power was divided between president, cabinet and parliament. [1] The president was directly elected under universal adult suffrage for a seven-year term, although Germany's first president, Friedrich Ebert , was elected by the Weimar National Assembly rather than the people.
The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
The Weimar National Assembly (German: Weimarer Nationalversammlung), officially the German National Constitutional Assembly (Verfassunggebende Deutsche Nationalversammlung), was the popularly elected constitutional convention and de facto parliament of Germany from 6 February 1919 to 21 May 1920.