History A-Level
Emergency powers and constitutional defence
What Emergency powers and constitutional defence means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Emergency powers and constitutional defence
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Weimar's use of Article 48 emergency decrees to check extremism, distinguished from the Federal Republic's Basic Law and Constitutional Court defence of democracy.
Topics that use Emergency powers and constitutional defence
- Opposition, control and consent, 1918–89 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Democratic dissent and state responses
- Propaganda and censorship
- Repression versus consent
- Continuity and change across regimes
- Impact of Versailles
- Political extremism and crises
- Resistance and dissent under dictatorship
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