In his essay "Die Diktatur" (on dictatorship) he discussed the foundations of the newly established Weimar Republic, emphasising the office of the "Reichspräsident". In this essay, Schmitt compared and contrasted what he saw as the effective and ineffective elements of the new constitution of his country. He saw the office of the president as a comparatively effective element, because of the power granted to the president to declare a state of exception ("Ausnahmezustand"). This power, which Schmitt discussed and implicitly praised as dictatorial, was more in line with the underlying mentality of executive power than the comparatively slow and ineffective processes of legislative power reached through parliamentary discussion and compromise.