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Danke! Sehr gründlich, vor allem der Artikel 1. Im ersten Satz des Grundgesetzes wird folgendes erwähnt: "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt." "Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."
Why then is one of your law enforcement agencies named Verfassungschutz and not Grundgesetzesschutz, if your Grundgesetz is to be officially recognized as a Verfassung? Furthermore, unlike the Latin translation for Grundgesetz (lex fundamentales), Verfassung translated into Latin is constitutio
The Bundesrat is not the Upper House of the German parliament. The German parliament is the Bundestag. The Bundesrat just another, seocndary legisaltive body.
Sir, could you please classify your German language learning videos as per the level A1/A2/B1/B2/C1/C2. It will help a lot or just reply me that to which level they are.
The Basic Law is "_our constitution_", huh!? Intriguing, that is. Please, show me another constitution of any country in the world that has a Duration Article (146) like "_our constitution_" has. Fundamental speech of Carlo Schmid, Sept 8, 1948: "We have to deliberate on, and enact the Basic Law for the organisation of the currently approved governmental authorities of the german people in a part of Germany, according to and under confirmation of the Allied Provisions. We are not to make the Constitution of Germany or West Germany. We are not to form a state." Konrad Adenauer: "We do not have mandates of the german people. We have the assignment of the Allied Forces." Willy Brandt, Feb 14, 1991: "This Basic Law, to put it carefully, the Americans commended to us. You could as well say, imposed."
Even if that had been all true back then* - it is certainly no longer true after 1990. The Grundgeetz ist the constitution of Germany and there is not a single counterargument that holds any water. You say the GG has a "Duration Article" - so what? Other countries have totally replaced their constutions many times - that doesn't make them any less constitutions. *And it isn't - statements by individuals cannot be binding above constitutional acts, especially if these statements preceded the act by months - and Brandt was talking nonsense as he so often did in 1991 (just as he did when he equated Bonn with Vichy) - the Grundgesetz was not imposed at all - the decision to have one was sort of imposed with the Frankfurt Documents but the GG itself was drawn up by the representatives of the German people in eleven states. The three powers (not just Americans) only "imposed" the broad outlines of what everybody wanted anyway.
@@str.77 Well why not calling it "Verfassung" instead of a meme word like "Grundgesetz"? One reason we dont have a constition like most countries is that we are still not being viewed as "sovereign" by the entire world. You "feel" like we have a "Verfassung" but technically we don't. We just saw how easy it is for the regime to change the GG like its nothing in regards to the gene-therapy solution. Don't take things "as is" and check their validity first by the wordings. What you "feel" doesn't hold up in a court of law.
@@ZalgoPinkamena Grundgesetz is not a meme word. It was chosen in 1949 to emphasize that the Federal Republic was a provisory state - it was the Western German states that feared it could otherwise deepen the German division. But by now, the Federal Republic is no longer provisory, the country has been reunited again and, wether you dispute it or not, has been sovereign for over thirty years by now. Sentences containing the word "technical" are always silly but if you insist: we do TECHNICALLY has a constitution that for histocical reasons is called Grundgesetz. Which "gene therapy solution" are you talking about? And no, whether it is easy or hard to change the constitution has no bearing on wether it is a constitution. Look how easy it was in 1959 to not only change the French constitution but to replace it with a something completely different. And yet, France had constitutions before and after that year. As much as I would like to have it harder, it is not a requirement. PS. I am not the one here arguing based on my "feelings" - it is instead you making up conditions that you feel would be required for a constitution.
Learn German with the online language learning school 'Lingoda'! :)
Check out their website here: bit.ly/2wn1Ajw
Save 50€/$ (respectively 3750 RUB) by using the code 'VlogDave4' at checkout!
Also: Thanks for watching!
I caught a cold, hence the slightly 'different sound' in this video. Hope you don't mind! :)
- Dave
Danke! Sehr gründlich, vor allem der Artikel 1.
Im ersten Satz des Grundgesetzes wird folgendes erwähnt: "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt." "Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."
Warum werden die deutschen Frauen denn nicht geschützt.
Cacilia Why sind Frauen für dich keine Menschen?
Hin und wieder kann eine kleine Auffrischung über solch wichtige Dinge nicht schaden. Danke! :)
This is quite informative, thanks for the video. please keep them coming
Please make more this kind of video! Knowing history and culture is important to learn the language
Those federal archive containers look like tiny beer kegs.
Why then is one of your law enforcement agencies named Verfassungschutz and not Grundgesetzesschutz, if your Grundgesetz is to be officially recognized as a Verfassung? Furthermore, unlike the Latin translation for Grundgesetz (lex fundamentales), Verfassung translated into Latin is constitutio
The Bundesrat is not the Upper House of the German parliament.
The German parliament is the Bundestag. The Bundesrat just another, seocndary legisaltive body.
Sir, could you please classify your German language learning videos as per the level A1/A2/B1/B2/C1/C2. It will help a lot or just reply me that to which level they are.
very informative clip - great job ! but why are you using this ugly lemon yellow to represent the gold of Germany’s national colours ? :-)
Ich dachte es verfassung geheißt. Nicht Grundgetz
hallo ...like wer deutsch ist und sich das reinzieht wie Ausländer über Deutschland reden
Ich bin aber kein Ausländer. :D
Aber freut mich natürlich auch, wenn Deutsche zuschauen! :)
Für einen Deutschen spricht er zwar gutes Englisch, ist aber unverwechselbar ein Deutscher.
lol
The Basic Law is "_our constitution_", huh!? Intriguing, that is.
Please, show me another constitution of any country in the world that has a Duration Article (146)
like "_our constitution_" has.
Fundamental speech of Carlo Schmid, Sept 8, 1948: "We have to deliberate on, and enact the Basic Law for the organisation of the currently approved governmental authorities of the german people in a part of Germany, according to and under confirmation of the Allied Provisions. We are not to make the Constitution of Germany or West Germany. We are not to form a state."
Konrad Adenauer: "We do not have mandates of the german people. We have the assignment of the Allied Forces."
Willy Brandt, Feb 14, 1991: "This Basic Law, to put it carefully, the Americans commended to us. You could as well say, imposed."
Even if that had been all true back then* - it is certainly no longer true after 1990. The Grundgeetz ist the constitution of Germany and there is not a single counterargument that holds any water. You say the GG has a "Duration Article" - so what? Other countries have totally replaced their constutions many times - that doesn't make them any less constitutions.
*And it isn't - statements by individuals cannot be binding above constitutional acts, especially if these statements preceded the act by months - and Brandt was talking nonsense as he so often did in 1991 (just as he did when he equated Bonn with Vichy) - the Grundgesetz was not imposed at all - the decision to have one was sort of imposed with the Frankfurt Documents but the GG itself was drawn up by the representatives of the German people in eleven states. The three powers (not just Americans) only "imposed" the broad outlines of what everybody wanted anyway.
@@str.77 Well why not calling it "Verfassung" instead of a meme word like "Grundgesetz"? One reason we dont have a constition like most countries is that we are still not being viewed as "sovereign" by the entire world. You "feel" like we have a "Verfassung" but technically we don't. We just saw how easy it is for the regime to change the GG like its nothing in regards to the gene-therapy solution. Don't take things "as is" and check their validity first by the wordings. What you "feel" doesn't hold up in a court of law.
@@ZalgoPinkamena Grundgesetz is not a meme word. It was chosen in 1949 to emphasize that the Federal Republic was a provisory state - it was the Western German states that feared it could otherwise deepen the German division. But by now, the Federal Republic is no longer provisory, the country has been reunited again and, wether you dispute it or not, has been sovereign for over thirty years by now.
Sentences containing the word "technical" are always silly but if you insist: we do TECHNICALLY has a constitution that for histocical reasons is called Grundgesetz.
Which "gene therapy solution" are you talking about? And no, whether it is easy or hard to change the constitution has no bearing on wether it is a constitution. Look how easy it was in 1959 to not only change the French constitution but to replace it with a something completely different. And yet, France had constitutions before and after that year. As much as I would like to have it harder, it is not a requirement.
PS. I am not the one here arguing based on my "feelings" - it is instead you making up conditions that you feel would be required for a constitution.