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Cristiana Senigaglia
The Republic of Weimar is characterized by a strong discontinuitywith the previous political system. Republic versus monarchy,prevailingly centralized state versus past federal system, a strongparliament (the new Reichstag) versus a previously dominantFederal Council, and a revolution at the end of the First WorldWar appear to determine an abrupt interruption and a radicalchange between the Kaiserreich and the new Weimar Republic. Ineffect, the elements of discontinuity are predominant and imply aradical change. Nonetheless, things are not so simple. The debateon the new Weimar Constitution entails more options, as MaxWeber (1864–1920) illustrated. Some efforts at reform had alreadybeen undertaken before the end of the war, and some newinstitutions recalled aspects present in the past or attempted toreplace the function of the former monarchy. This analysis aimsat offering a more differentiated insight on the two consecutiveset-ups and also at discovering some more or less openly latentreferences of the new Weimar Constitution to the previous system
