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The German Constitution
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The New
German Constitution
by
René Brunet
Professor of Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law at the Universityof Caen, formerly legal advisor to the French Embassy at Berlin
Translated from the French by Joseph Gollomb
Foreword by Charles A. Beard
New York Mcmxxii
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COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
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Published April, 1922.
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FOREWORD
It is a pleasure to introduce M. Brunet to the Americanpublic. He is a French scholar of the finest type, careful, objective,and sincere. The present work on the German constitutionbears the impress of these high qualities. In thisvolume we find the scientific spirit that was to be expected,combined with an intimate, first-hand knowledge of the forcesand materials which are described. All this is very significant.The long night of the Great War was hardly over beforeM. Brunet began an impartial and thorough-going studyof the state of affairs created in Germany by the revolutionof November, 1918. If a Frenchman who suffered so muchcan display such good sense and sobriety, then surely Americanscholars ought to give more than a hearty welcome to thisvolume. It is an excellent beginning in the reconstruction ofthe republic of letters.
In this book we have a plain and simple account of theGerman revolution and the conflict of forces which ended inthe establishment of the republic. The balance of parties isexamined. The results of the elections to the national assemblyare summarized. Then follows a systematic analysisof the new plan of government, illuminat