The Enabling Act easily gathered the required 2/3 vote, and Wels quickly fled the country. On July 12, Goebbels gloated: “SPD dissolved. We won’t have long to wait for the total state.” ...

The Enabling Act was known at the time as “The Act for the Removal of the Distress of the People and the Reich.” The Reich’s distress originated in Germany’s surrender in World War I and ...

Amendments to the Enabling Act of University Senate and Faculty Assembly must be approved by the Board of Trustees (Note: References to class days in this document include final exam week.) Approved: ...

Those who were supposed to uphold the Constitution and protect people’s rights, have become subservient On March 23 the German Parliament, the Reichstag, passed the Enabling Act (named ...

An enabling act would just make this existing practice the norm, not the exception. To say that a government may want to introduce such an enabling act is not to affirm “Godwin’s law” about all ...

The Enabling Act, the passing of which has its anniversary on the 23rd of this month, was the main instrument by which the Nazi Party assumed total, dictatorial control over the German state, ...

A sometimes-overlooked aspect of class action law is how class certification rules interact with the Rules Enabling Act, which provides that rules of procedure and evidence “shall not abridge ...

It is 86 years on Saturday since the Enabling Act paved the way for the Nazis to take control of Germany. Michael Stuchbery looks back on how the road to dictatorship can come about slowly but surely.