And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919Bouton, S. Miles (Stephen Miles)
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And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919
Bouton, S. Miles (Stephen Miles)
Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1918; Germany -- Politics and government
There shall be administrative courts both in the Commonwealth and in the
States, in accordance with the laws, to protect the individual against
orders and decrees of administrative authorities.
ARTICLE 108
In accordance with a national law a Supreme Judicial Court will be
established for the German Commonwealth.
CHAPTER II
Fundamental Rights and Duties of Germans.
_SECTION I_
THE INDIVIDUAL
ARTICLE 109
All Germans are equal before the law.
Men and women have fundamentally the same civil rights and duties.
Privileges or discriminations due to birth or rank and recognized by law
are abolished. Titles of nobility will be regarded merely as part of the
name and may not be granted hereafter.
Titles may be conferred only when they designate an office or
profession; academic degrees are not affected by this provision.
Orders and honorary insignia may not be conferred by the state.
No German may accept a title or order from a foreign Government.
ARTICLE 110
Citizenship in the Commonwealth and in the States will be acquired and
lost in accordance with the provisions of a national law. Every citizen
of a State is at the same time a citizen of the Commonwealth.
Every German has the same rights and duties in each State of the
Commonwealth as the citizens of that State.
ARTICLE 111
All Germans enjoy the right to travel and reside freely throughout the
whole Commonwealth. Everyone has the right of sojourn and settlement in
any place within the Commonwealth, the right to acquire land and to
pursue any gainful occupation. No limitations may be imposed except by
authority of a national law.
ARTICLE 112
Every German has the right to emigrate to foreign countries. Emigration
may be limited only by national law.
All German citizens, both within and without the territory of the
Commonwealth, have a right to its protection with respect to foreign
countries.
No German may be surrendered to a foreign Government for prosecution or
punishment.
ARTICLE 113
Those elements of the People which speak a foreign language may not be
interfered with by legislative or administrative action in their free
and characteristic development, especially in the use of their mother
tongue in the schools or in matters of internal administration and the
administration of justice.
ARTICLE 114
Personal liberty is inviolable. An interference with or abridgment of
personal liberty through official action is permissible only by
authority of law.
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