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I'm not familiar with Weimar. Too many parties getting a (disorganized) voice?

Basically, there were Communists and Nazis on the fringes, and nearly a dozen parties in the center who couldn't agree on a damned thing, permitting the Communists and Nazis to tie up the Reichstag, forcing the gov't to rule by fiat rather than by the legislature. Nobody could pass a law from about 1930 on --- and many historians tie the ruling by fiat to an acceptance of dictatorial control.

 

The vast number of centrist parties effectively paralyzed the center.

 

Weimar is ALSO why most Parliamentary systems have rules forbidding parties who oppose the Constitution from running any longer.

-=Mike

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