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First step

The first steps to establish a progressive liberal democracy in Germany after the Great War were taken on 28 October 1918. The constitution was changed to transfer power to the Reichstag (legislature). The major parties supported it. They felt it would encourage a period of calm needed to negotiate an armistice and peace treaty.

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The German legislature, the Reichstag.

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