Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic

Tables and Figures ix Preface xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: Constitutional Frameworks and Constitutional Law 12 CHAPTER 2: Parties,Leaders,and Constitutional Law in Ebert's Republic 30 CHAPTER 3: Divided Minorities and Constitutional Dictatorship in Weimar Germany 49 CHAPTER 4: Parties,Leaders,and Constitutional Law in de Gaulle's Republic 71 CHAPTER 5: Consolidated Majorities and Constitutional Democracy in the French Fifth Republic 93 CONCLUSION 118 Bibliography 129 Index 145