About Democracy in the 21st century, so their future thinking, would inevitably require some considerations about their past. Modern democratic systems are not very old. In the 19th century democratic states were the global exception. After the First World War, many European countries became democracies, most of which soon failed. Adapted from the source document.
The participants in Weimar discussions argued about the relationship between politics & law & based these arguments on generational assessments of constitutional history, with younger participants utilizing constitutional theory as a new & foreign form of theoretical association of politics & law. The association between generation, political persuasion, & juristic profession is investigated & balanced in a brief systematic exploration of the theoretical relationship between politics & law & a brief look at the prior methodological disagreements in the Kaiser era. The open discussion of the relationship between politics & law explains the current topicality of the Weimar constitutional law. The association of politics & law is not solely the result of political persuasion, but also a projection of a particular generation of the Weimar epoch that grew intellectually with the brittleness of the late constitutional period, & was confronted with the need to develop a new political constitutional theory. L. Kehl
