Note 42 — Chapter IV · PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT

The President of the Reich has not, what is called in France, le pouvoir réglementaire, that is to say, the right to issue general ordinances obligatory on all citizens. He cannot make regulations of this kind except in cases where the Constitution or an ordinary law gives him special power to do so. In such a case either he issues the regulation, naturally with the countersignature of a Minister (Articles 48, 49, 51, 59 of the Constitution, for example), or he must first obtain the consent of the Reichstag.