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Rather than adopting a new constitution under Article 146 of the Basic Law, the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany) amended Article 146 and the Preamble of the Basic Law to state that German unification had now been fully achieved, while also adding a further clause 143(3) to entrench in the Basic Law the irreversibility of acts of expropriation ...
In its initial form, the Constitution came into effect on 8 June 1815. The preamble states that the Constitution's purpose was "the safety and independence of Germany" united in "perpetual Confederation". [1] Each state pledged to protect every other state and Germany as a whole if attacked.
The Reunification clause was part of the preamble of the German Constitution. As a whole, it is known as the German Basic Law. The preamble was in force from 1949 until 1990. The preamble ended with the sentence: Das gesamte Deutsche Volk bleibt aufgefordert, in freier Selbstbestimmung die Einheit und Freiheit Deutschlands zu vollenden.
The Constitution of Berlin is divided into 9 sections and 101 articles: Preamble Resolving to protect the freedom and the rights of every individual, to afford democratic order to the community and the economy, and to serve the spirit of social progress and peace, Berlin, the capital of the united Germany, has adopted the following Constitution:
The 1949 Constitution of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) contained many passages that were directly copied from the 1919 constitution. [46] It was intended to be the constitution of a united Germany and was therefore a compromise between liberal-democratic and Marxist–Leninist ideologies.
The 1949 constitution had declared Germany a "democratic republic", whereas the new one described East Germany as a "socialist state of the German nation". [19] Under the old constitution, power derived from "the people", while Article 2 of the new Constitution stated that power emanated from "the worker in city and country". [19]
I. Man and State (Articles 1–3c) II. Religion and religious communities (Articles 4–10) III. Education and instruction (Articles 11–22) The constitution does not contain its own catalogue of fundamental rights, but declares in Article 2 paragraph 1 that the fundamental rights and civil rights laid down in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany are an integral part of the ...
The concept is closely linked to the of anti-communist policies in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) during the Cold War. [11] In the early years of the republic, the extremist and anti-constitutional parties "Communist Party of Germany" (1956) and the "Socialist Reich Party" (1952) have been successfully banned.