Constitutional Principles Act
The constitutional principle law ( law amending and supplementing the constitution of the German Democratic Republic ) was an additional law of June 17, 1990 to the constitution of the German Democratic Republic . It remained in force until German reunification on October 3, 1990.
When after the first free Volkskammer elections on March 18, 1990 increasingly became clear that the People's Chamber of the GDR joining the Federal Republic of Germany would decide it issued on June 17, 1990, the anniversary of the popular uprising of 1953 , new constitutional principles, certain liberal and declared democratic principles to have priority over the GDR constitutional text. The Constitutional Principles Act was the actual constitutional document for the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR .
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For a transitional period, the constitution of the German Democratic Republic was supplemented by the following constitutional principles "in the expectation of an early establishment of national unity in Germany":
- Freedom basic order: the GDR as a liberal, democratic, federal, social and ecologically oriented constitutional state . Provisions in legal provisions which obliged the individual or organs of state power to comply with the socialist state and legal order, the principle of democratic centralism, etc., are repealed.
- Guarantee of private property
- Economic freedom of action
- Free unions
- Independent jurisdiction
- protection of the environment
- Protection of work
In addition, the constitutional law contained the authorization that the German Democratic Republic could transfer sovereign rights to intergovernmental institutions and institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany by constitutional law or consent to the restriction of sovereign rights.