Thursday, January 26, 2006

Reichstag rudux

"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one." - Adolf Hitler, promise to the Reichstag (Parliament) on the occasion of the "Enabling Act," the imposition of "temporary" dictatorship following the "Reichstag Fire."

Hitler's Enabling Act
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/enabling.htm

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