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    It is not the case that The Weimar Republic's collapse illustrates that emergent constitutional redesign without pre-committed normative constraints enables authoritarian capture.

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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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    • 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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