A report on Constituent assembly, Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany and Constitution

Opening session of the 2021 Chilean constitutional convention

Basic Law. Published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Constitution of the Year XII (First French Republic)

Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy (1940)

The Grundrechte at Jakob Kaiser House, Berlin

Constitution of the Kingdom of Naples in 1848.

The Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1830 (George Catlin, ca. 1830). Many state constituent assemblies, like the 1830 Virginia Constitutional Convention, were highly formalized but the legitimacy of the constitution they drafted depended on whether it was authorized by the people, not whether a particular procedure was followed.

Article 1, sentence 1: "Human dignity is inviolable"

Detail from Hammurabi's stele shows him receiving the laws of Babylon from the seated sun deity.

The West German ministers-president debating the Frankfurt Documents in Koblenz

Diagram illustrating the classification of constitutions by Aristotle.

German stamp commemorating the work of the Parlamentarischer Rat

Third volume of the compilation of Catalan Constitutions of 1585

Facsimile of the Basic Law of 1949 as received by each member of the Parliamentary Council

The Cossack Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk, 1710.

The Constitutional Convention at Herrenchiemsee drew up the draft for the Basic Law in summer 1948 at the Herrenchiemsee Abbey on the secluded Herreninsel (Isle of Lords) in the Bavarian lake of Chiemsee while shielded from the public. The basic law formed the central part of the constitution of Allied-occupied Germany and subsequently reunified Germany.

A painting depicting George Washington at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution

Constitution of May 3, 1791 (painting by Jan Matejko, 1891). Polish King Stanisław August (left, in regal ermine-trimmed cloak), enters St. John's Cathedral, where Sejm deputies will swear to uphold the new Constitution; in background, Warsaw's Royal Castle, where the Constitution has just been adopted.

Presidential copy of the Russian Constitution.

A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.

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The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Parlamentarischer Rat (Parliamentary Council) (1948) – Drafted the Basic Law of the Federal Republic for ratification by the Länder.

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The Basic Law potentially provided two routes for the establishment of a reborn and unified German state: either under Article 23 whereby 'other parts of Germany' over and above the named States of the Federal Republic (Bundesländer) could subsequently declare their accession, or under Article 146 where constituent power (pouvoir constituant) could be exercised by elected representatives of the entirety of the German people in creating a new permanent constitution that would replace the Basic Law.

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These procedures may include: convocation of a special constituent assembly or constitutional convention, requiring a supermajority of legislators' votes, approval in two terms of parliament, the consent of regional legislatures, a referendum process, and/or other procedures that make amending a constitution more difficult than passing a simple law.

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The term eternity clause is used in a similar manner in the constitutions of the Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Morocco, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Brazil and Norway.

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A report on Constituent assembly, Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany and Constitution

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