Introduction -- Constitutional emergency powers and the Weimar assembly -- Emergency provisions of the Weimar constitution -- The Communist Insurrection of 1920 -- The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 -- The new technique of revolution -- The limits of non-legislative action -- Inflation and the enabling acts -- The legislative methods of Chancellor Brüning -- The period of Presidential government -- The last election campaign -- The end of the German Republic -- The general problem of constitutional emergency powers --Bibliographical note -- Index.