ABSTRACT
On the eve of the end of World War I and the outbreak of the Berlin revolution, Germany suffered a crushing defeat in war and a depression in their economy. It was confronted with a turbulent political environment domestically and gloomy foreign affairs. Two eminent ideologists in Germany, out of their deep precarious consciousness and patriotism, advocated for the necessity of assuming sole control of the country by a leader – a dictatorship, one after another. One was Max Weber who proposed the idea of combining a referendum with imperial presidency, and enabled it to be an essential part of the Weimarer Verfassung with promotion from the Democratic Party. The other, was Carl Schmitt, who focused on a sovereign's determination and unusual measures surmounting the rule of law. The grounds on which Schmitt opposes liberalism are equality and corresponding democracy on the basis of homogeneity.
