Research Catalog

Title

Germany and its Basic Law : past, present, and future : a German-American symposium / edited by Paul Kirchhof, Donald P. Kommers.

Publication

Baden-Baden : Nomos, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Kirchhof, Paul, 1943-
• Kommers, Donald P.
• Dräger-Stiftung.
• American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

Description

434 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Series Dräger Foundation ; v. 14

Uniform Title

Edition Dräger-Stiftung ; Bd. 14.

Subject

• Deutschland
• BMBF-Statusseminar
• Constitutional law > Congresses
• Constitutional law > Germany (West) > Congresses
• Constitutional law > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Washington (DC, 1989)

Note

• Revisions of papers presented at a conference held in Washington, Oct. 23-25, 1989, and co-sponsored by the Dräger-Stiftung and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.
• Issued also in German, under title: Deutschland und sein Grundgesetz.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Representative democracy -- Political representation in Germany / Helmut Steinberger -- Excluding political parties: problems for democratic and constitutional theory / Walter F. Murphy -- Comments on part 3 / Donald P. Kommers -- Basic rights and liberties -- Principles of human dignity in the Federal Republic / Kurt Sontheimer -- Personal freedoms and economic liberties: American judicial policy / John B. Attanasio -- Economic and occupational rights / Fritz Ossenbühl -- Comments on part 4 / Mary Ann Glendon -- The basic law and the economic system -- Principles of the economic system in the Federal Republic -- an economist's view / Horst Siebert.
• Principles of the economic system in the Federal Republic of Germany -- a legal view / Reiner Schmidt -- Principles of the economic system -- an American view / Christopher S. Allen -- Comments on part 5 / Ellen Kennedy -- Special contributions -- The path to German unity: the constitutional, legal and international framework / Rudolph Dolzer -- The separation and concentration of power in the Basic Law / Roman Herzog -- The role of the plebiscite in representative democracy / Annemarie Renger -- 200 years of American constitutionalism / Warren E. Burger -- Constitutional courts -comparative remarks / William Rehnquist.
• An assessment of the Basic Law and it's political practice -- General assessment of the Basic Law -- a German view / Klaus Stern -- General assessment of the Basic Law -- an American view / W. Cole Durham -- Comments on part 1 / Donald P. Kommers -- Federalism -- Principles of German federalism / Peter Lerche -- Principles of American federalism / Arthur B. Gunlicks -- Comments on part 2 / Francis X. Beytagh, Jr.

ISBN

3789026964

LCCN

^^^93190112^

OCLC

28708381

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Harvard Library