Constitutional principles |
Constitutional principles |
Article 20 (Constitutional principles – Right of resistance)
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| (1) The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic and social federal state.
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| (2) All state authority is derived from the people. It shall be exercised by the people through elections and other votes and through specific legislative, executive and judicial bodies.
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| (3) The legislature shall be bound by the constitutional order, the executive and the judiciary by law and justice.
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| (4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available.
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