“GERMAN REPUBLIC IS THE MOST DEMOCRATIC DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD” – CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OFWEIMAR REPUBLIC

Abstract

On the basis of the shorthand notes of the German National Assembly in Weimar, and historical literature, the paper analyzed historical conditions in which the Constitution of the first German Republic was brought. A special attention was paid to the ideological influences which guided the creators of the Constitution, primarily Hugo Preuss, to the basic constitutional provisions, as well as to the criticism of the liberal-democratic order established through the Constitution by the political right and left wings.