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    The Weimar Republic's collapse illustrates that emergent ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The institutional design of radical democracy cannot be specified in advance and must emerge through the process of reconstruction itself.

    The Weimar Republic's collapse illustrates that emergent constitutional redesign without pre-committed normative constraints enables authoritarian capture.

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    • 1.Weimar's Article 48 emergency powers lacked constitutional guardrails, allowing Hitler to suspend rights without formal amendment.
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    • 2.Absence of entrenched protections for democratic procedures enabled legal dismantling of checks through majoritarian voting alone.
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    • 3.Constitutions without pre-committed normative constraints treat rights as revocable, inviting strategic exploitation by determined actors.
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    • 1.Pre-committed constraints (e.g., Weimar's federalism) also failed; no constitutional design alone prevents authoritarian capture without civic support.
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    • 2.Causal attribution to constitutional design obscures material factors: economic collapse, mass unemployment, and lost war legitimized extremism.
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    • 3.Democracies with entrenched norms (US, post-war Germany) also face capture risks; constraints may shift capture methods rather than prevent them.
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