2007
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5745-8_5
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Rechtsstaat and Individual Rights in German Constitutional History

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“…The principle of citizenship holds states accountable for ensuring that their citizens receive protection and fair treatment according to international human rights norms, regardless of their nationality. 27 this means that countries are expected to conform to global human rights expectations, irrespective of the specific rights outlined in their own national legal systems. 28 The citizenship principle obligates states to provide their citizens with the safeguards and equitable treatment mandated by international human rights standards.…”
Section: The Protection Of Individual Rights Is Kind Of State's Oblig...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The principle of citizenship holds states accountable for ensuring that their citizens receive protection and fair treatment according to international human rights norms, regardless of their nationality. 27 this means that countries are expected to conform to global human rights expectations, irrespective of the specific rights outlined in their own national legal systems. 28 The citizenship principle obligates states to provide their citizens with the safeguards and equitable treatment mandated by international human rights standards.…”
Section: The Protection Of Individual Rights Is Kind Of State's Oblig...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The constitutional law from normative understanding is distinct in that it confronts, regulates the political reality and provides a legal yardstick to measure public and political life in the nation. W. Kagi describes it as the framework of national supreme laws (Gozzi, 2007) while K. Stern defines it as supreme law establishing the principles that create the governmental system and public values (Borowski, 2003;Engel, 2001).…”
Section: Dual Facet On Epistemologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…English law, however, rather sticks to the Lockean idea of 'inalienable' subjective rights of individual citizens towards the government, with the latter being bound in its relation to its subjects by unwritten legal principles that do not essentially differ from those that bind ordinary citizens amongst each other. 38 Resisting a political theory that is conducive to administrative centralization, English law finally resolved conflicts between Crown and Parliament decidedly in favour of the latter, indulging in a long-standing English tradition of legislative and judicial supremacy instead of centralized rule by a government exempt from law, with the Crown belonging to the body politic rather than the other way round.39 An invented tradition, perhaps, but nevertheless a 'peculiarity of our polity' that is cherished by Dicey as a great accomplishment, a source of 'admiration or astonishment' for great foreign minds like those of Voltaire, De Tocqueville and Gneist. 40 In neglect of the unique position of the government as the sole wielder of public force, capable of unilaterally determining the legal position of its subjects, the Victorian England of Dicey has been described by some as a 'stateless society' lacking a legal framework that recognizes the commonwealth as something different from a private enterprise.…”
Section: Common Lawmentioning
confidence: 99%