Editing Kapp Putsch (section)

===Weimar politics===
In 2009, Layton wrote, "At first sight the collapse of the Kapp ''Putsch'' could be viewed as a major success for the Weimar Republic. In the six days of crisis, it had retained the backing of the people of Berlin and had effectively withstood a major threat from the extreme right."<ref name=gl>{{cite book |author=Geoff Layton |title=Democracy and dictatorship in Germany 1919–1963 |year=2009 |publisher=Hodder Education}}{{page number|date=March 2022}}</ref>{{page number|date=March 2022}} Among the grievances which Kapp and his followers had against the government were that the National Assembly, which had been elected to serve temporarily, was beginning to act as a permanent Reichstag and that it seemed this assembly might revise the constitution with respect to the election of the president of the Republic, which would make the Reichstag, rather than the electorate, responsible for the presidential election. As a consequence of the political crisis that the putsch caused, the date of the general election for the first republican Reichstag was brought forward to 6 June. All attempts to change the method of election for the presidency of the Republic were abandoned.<ref name="eb"/> In the [[German federal election, 1920|Reichstag elections of 6 June]], the number of votes cast for the SPD and the Democratic Party fell by more than half compared to the January 1919 elections, while the right-wing German National People's Party (DNVP) (some of whose voters eventually switched to the Nazis) and the left-wing USPD gained substantially. The Weimar Coalition lost its majority in parliament and would never regain it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mommsen |first=Hans |title=The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |year=1989 |location=Chapel Hill & London |pages=86–87 |translator-last=Forster |translator-first=Elborg |translator-last2=Jones |translator-first2=Larry Eugene}}</ref>