After the carnage of the Second World western part of Germany, the Allied occupation zone (the UK, US and France), started to rise from the ruins.This concerned the state system of the country, to know the bitter experience of Nazism.German Constitution, adopted in 1949, the year adopted a parliamentary republic, which was based on the principles of civil liberties, human rights and federalism.
great interest is the fact that this document was originally taken as a temporary basic law of the transitional period, the current to full political unification of the two parts of the state.As it has been stated in the preamble.But then the German constitution in 1949 was recognized as the most successful in German history.After the reunification of Germany on the temporary action item of the document was deleted from the preamble.Thus, post-war constitution still in effect today.
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany on the principles of its construction and the right standards, the declared in it, has become extremely progressive document, which had a significant impact on the development of a free democratic society in the updated Germany.Not for nothing in her first nineteen articles describe in detail the rights of the citizens of the newly created state and a clear commitment to democracy.
these provisions of the constitution of Germany as it strikes in the history of the German people dark Nazi past.Giving citizens sufficient opportunities for the realization of their rights, at the same time the fundamental law prohibits any actions that are a potential threat to the democratic system and the foundations of civilized European society.In 1951, the year in the German Constitutional Court was introduced.This is another significant step on the difficult path of building a democratic society in the country, more recently, then going through the triumphs and failure of National Socialism.
very revealing was the fact that, under the new constitution, the whole territory of Western Germany were banned not only the activities of the various parties of the neo-Nazi persuasion, but also communists.The latter can be regarded as a kind of nod to the victorious Allied powers.Also, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 fixes several foundational principles of democracy: the dominant role of the rule of law, socially oriented state institutions and the federal structure of the country.
Thus for making any amendments, changes and additions to the basic law necessarily require their approval and approval by at least two-thirds of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.However, some of the fundamental provisions of the Constitution could not be subject to change, even in this case.There was obviously affected by the lessons learned from the Nazis came to power and the fruits of their work.
principle of federalism, which are the subjects of the state of the earth, is a historically traditional for Germany.This form of construction of the state passed a difficult way from centralized federalism to the modern model of cooperative federalism in which each land is an equal participant in the political life of the state, with its own government, constitution and other attributes of statehood.This arrangement proved the declared and in post-war constitution, as the most suitable for the historical traditions of the German people.Now Germany and also boasts the most developed in Europe labor laws.
