Article 19 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany

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Article 19 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany contains various general regulations for the various basic rights of the German Basic Law .

Normalization

Art. 19 GG reads as follows:

(1) Insofar as a basic right can be restricted by law or on the basis of a law according to this Basic Law, the law must apply in general and not only to individual cases. In addition, the law must specify the fundamental right by specifying the article.

(2) In no case may the essential content of a fundamental right be affected.

(3) The fundamental rights also apply to domestic legal persons, insofar as their nature is applicable to them.

(4) If someone's rights are violated by public authority, legal recourse is open to him. If no other jurisdiction is justified, the ordinary legal process is given. Article 10 paragraph 2 sentence 2 remains unaffected.

Explanations

The individual regulations deal with:

Paragraph 1 Clause 1 - Prohibition of the individual law
Paragraph 1 sentence 2 - quotation requirement
Section 2 - Essence Guarantee
Section 3 - Entitlement to fundamental rights of legal persons
Section 4 - Legal recourse guarantee