Word: constitutionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years to the day after the Third Reich surrendered the bloody remnants of its arrogance and power to the Allies, German delegates at Bonn last week adopted a democratic constitution for the 46 million people of Western Germany.
Convention Chairman Konrad Adenauer insisted, for history's sake, that the constitution be adopted on that grim anniversary; he managed to have the final vote (53-to-12) taken five minutes before midnight on May 8.
The constitution is to be approved this week by the military governors of the three Western zones. After that the legislatures of the eleven West German states will have to ratify it, the German people hold elections to choose a parliament. Target date for the "Federal Republic of Germany" to...
"The dignity of man shall be inviolable" and "all men shall be equal before the law," states the constitution's bill of rights. It provides for a free press, free assembly and inviolability of a man's home. It says: "No one may be prejudiced or privileged because...
Aware of totalitarian tendencies still alive in Germany, the Bonn Conference also laid the groundwork for outlawing the Communists or any neo-Nazi group. The constitution provides that political parties may be ruled unconstitutional if they attempt to abolish "the free and democratic basic order."