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

Constitution of the Year XII (First French Republic)

Basic Law. Published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Constitution of the Kingdom of Naples in 1848.

The Grundrechte at Jakob Kaiser House, Berlin

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

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

Diagram illustrating the classification of constitutions by Aristotle.

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

Third volume of the compilation of Catalan Constitutions of 1585

German stamp commemorating the work of the Parlamentarischer Rat

The Cossack Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk, 1710.

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

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

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.

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.

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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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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Entrenched clause

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An entrenched clause or entrenchment clause of a basic law or constitution is a provision that makes certain amendments either more difficult or impossible to pass, making such amendments invalid.

The term eternity clause is used in a similar manner in the constitutions of Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Morocco, Norway, and Turkey, but specifically applies to an entrenched clause that can never be overridden.

Opening session of the 2021 Chilean constitutional convention

Constituent assembly

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

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.

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.

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

Separation of powers

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Separation of powers refers to the division of a state's government into branches, each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities, so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with those of the other branches.

George Washington at Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U.S. Constitution

Constitutions with a high degree of separation of powers are found worldwide.

The three branches in German government are further divided into six main bodies enshrined in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany: