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The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany [1] (German: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.. The West German Constitution was approved in Bonn on 8 May 1949 and came into effect on 23 May after having been approved by the occupying western Allies of World War II on 12 May.
A campaign in favor of the constitutional amendment, titled Deutsch ins Grundgesetz (German into the Basic Law), is spearheaded by language-purist magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt and its publisher, the non-profit Association for Cultivation of the Language, [2] demanding an amendment that would add the sentence: "The language of the Federal Republic of Germany shall be German."
Rights under the German constitution can also be divided between universal fundamental rights (Jedermann-Grundrechte), which are afforded to everyone, and German fundamental rights (Staatsbürgerrechte or Deutschenrechte), to which only Germans are entitled. The reason for the separation is largely due to democratic will and the protection of ...
Unlike all other German courts, the court often publishes the vote count on its decisions (though only the final tally, not every judge's personal vote) and even allows its members to issue a dissenting opinion. This possibility, introduced only in 1971, is a remarkable deviation from German judicial tradition.
The law of Germany (German: Recht Deutschlands), that being the modern German legal system (German: deutsches Rechtssystem), is a system of civil law which is founded on the principles laid out by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, though many of the most important laws, for example most regulations of the civil code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, or BGB) were developed prior to ...
Germany has agreed to change its constitution to allow for a credit-based special defense fund of 100 billion euros ($107.35 billion) proposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the German ...
Germany's Basic Law (constitution) of 1949 stipulates that only bodies that are constitutionally endowed with legislative power can enact laws. This theoretically precludes legislation such as the 1933 Enabling Act.
Saxony joined on 6 June and Bavaria on 8 June, which allowed the Constitution to be adopted and signed that day. Baden followed on 26 July and Württemberg on 1 September 1815. [8] The Constitution of the German Confederation was part of the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, which was signed on 9 June 1815. The signatory powers of the ...