Hugo Preuss, head of the Commission which drew up the Weimar Constitution in 1919.
I have often listened to the debates with real concern, glancing timidly to the gentlemen of the Right, fearful lest they say to me: ‘Do you hope to give a parliamentary system to a nation like this, one that resists it with every sinew in its body?’ One finds suspicion everywhere; Germans cannot shake off their old political timidity and their deference to the authoritarian state.
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