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To: sylvester80 who wrote (179544)	1/9/2006 10:20:23 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

was a MINORITY party leader that was made chancellor by Von Hindenburg not by any election. Yes.. but he was made chancellor, NOT by Hinderberg, but by the various power elites in the parties that formed a coalition within the Reichstag. Because the Weimar Republic was a Unicameral government (similar to Britain's Parliament) where the Chancellor was normally the majority party leader. The combination of political terror and state-run propaganda gave the Nazis their best election result yet. On March 5, 1933, the Nazis won 44 percent of the vote -- but still not a majority. The Nazis also secured 288 seats in the makeshift parliament -- again, still not a majority. Along with the 52 seats of the Nationalists, however, their coalition had obtained a majority of 16 seats. So was he democractically elected as President? No. But being the majority leader in the coalitional government meant he was democratically elected via the votes his party received and the coalition he was able to form. But getting back to the point related to the "Enabling Act", ?Hitler needed 2/3 vote to alter the Constitution and grant him dictatorial powers. It was passed 441 to 84, and the world would never again be the same. And why is it, given the obvioous stigma surrounding the use of "enabling acts", did your boy Hugo decide to make use of them? And what about that database of how people voted in Venezuela? Do you think it's very democratic for the government to have a "black and white" list of how people voted? What would you think if OUR government had you in a database that reflected how you voted?? This is democracy? Hawk