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

Basic Law. Published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education
Constitution of the Year XII (First French Republic)
The Grundrechte at Jakob Kaiser House, Berlin
Constitution of the Kingdom of Naples in 1848.
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
Political system of Germany, chart
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.
Magna Carta
United States Constitution

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.

- Entrenched clause

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

- Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

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.

- Entrenched clause

Articles 1 and 20 are protected by the so-called eternity clause ("Ewigkeitsklausel") Article 79 (3) that prohibits any sort of change or removal of the principles laid down in Articles 1 and 20.

- Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

Constitutions may also provide that their most basic principles can never be abolished, even by amendment.

- Constitution

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.

- Constitution
Basic Law. Published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education

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