Freedom of marriage
The freedom to marry is one of the fundamental rights of the people. It consists in being able to marry or not to marry freely.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines it in particular in Art. 16 (2): "Marriage may only be concluded on the basis of the free and full agreement of the future spouse."
In German marriage law there is a similar concept of freedom of marriage .
With freedom of marriage is in Austria the right of all citizens referred to marry.
In Switzerland , freedom of marriage was guaranteed in Art. 54 of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation of May 29, 1874.
In the USA freedom of marriage has existed since the decision of Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Human rights
- ↑ Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, 1973, Vol. 7 p. 444.
- ↑ http://www.verfassungen.de/ch/verf74-i.htm