The euro crisis is pushing Germany to test the limits of its "Basic Law".
The territory enjoys some autonomy under its Basic Law, which provides for a separate legal system and considerable autonomy in running its own affairs.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] – Your article on a new Hungarian constitution ("Goulash soup", April 9th) emphasised the need for the country to renew its basic law as the old one was a legal mishmash, partly inherited from the communist era.
The occasion for his statement was an arguably superfluous UNESCO resolution, from early May, "reaffirming the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions" and "reminding" the world that Israel is the "occupying Power" — that its "basic law" annexing the eastern part of Jerusalem should be considered "null and void".
Instead, its basic law was governed by the Doctrine of the Holy Crown (Szentkorona-tan), a complex tradition that underlies Hungary's historical, unwritten constitution until the 1947 Soviet-drafted constitution.
Political loyalty is devotion to, and identification with, a political cause or a political community, its institutions, basic laws, major political ideas, and general policy objectives.
The new constitution for the European Union, unlike its current set of basic laws, provides for a strong president.
In fact it denies the basic laws of thermodynamics".
It goes against the basic laws of developmental economics.
Solution 1, on the other hand, assumes that energy is conserved, without actually proving it from Newton's basic laws.
