The second part of the Constitution of Weimar is devoted entirely to the fundamental rights and duties of Germans. It is the Declaration of Rights of the new Germany. Aside from several articles relating exclusively to the economic organization of the Reich, the five sections of this part contain a long enumeration of the rights and duties granted to or imposed on the Germans. To enter into details of this enumeration would be to undertake a study of all of German public and private law. Nevertheless an attempt must be made to outline the principal ideas. 1.--LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES. The articles relative to fundamental rights and duties, during the discussion of the draft of the Constitution, were the subjects of lively differences of opinion. It was questioned whether it was necessary and useful to insert such provisions into the Constitution; moreover, every one of these provisions one after another was debated. The Bismarckian Constitution of 1871 contains no declaration of rights. On the other hand, the drafters of the Constitution of 1849 proposed such a great number of fundamental rights and applied themselves with such complacence to the elaboration of these rights that the Constituent Assembly of that time was unable to make itself heeded, and this defeat contributed largely to the defeat of the whole of the project of such rights. The first proposal of the Cabinet following the tradition of the proposal of 1849 and also the Declaration of Rights of the French Revolution, as well as of the American, Belgian and Prussian Constitutions, enumerated in a few paragraphs several essential legal principles and enunciated some fundamental dogmas which have been considered for a century and in all civilized countries as self-evident truths. But in the Constitutional Committee the discussion went far beyond these generalities. Desirous of creating an intellectual background in which justice and administration would have to operate, desiring also to furnish in the form of some suggestive maxims a guide for the conduct of some of the most important matters in the legal domain, and to furnish a solid foundation for the juridical culture of the German people, the members of the Constitutional Committee nominated a sub-committee, which prepared a new draft whose provisions were embodied in the draft of the Cabinet, in different bills prepared on private initiative, as well as in the new Constitutions of Baden and Wurtemberg. In the drawing up of this new draft the principal rôle was played by Beyerle, member of the Centre.