Peter Häberle on Constitutional Theory

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Constitution as Culture and the Open Society of Constitutional Interpreters

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Erschienen am 21. Juni 2018

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Cover
Foreword
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Fundamental Rights in the Welfare State. Second Co-report of Professor Dr. Peter Häberle, Marburg on Lahn.
Introduction
PART ONE
I. Problem
II. Welfare "state" and performance oriented "society
1. The welfare state in the text of the Basic Law (the "GG")
2. "Provision of benefits" as feature of governmental public interest functions
a) Welfare-related legislation and law governing welfare
aa) General overview
bb) Typology of welfare acts
cc) Consequences for the idea of law with impact on fundamental rights
b) Welfare administration
c) Jurisprudence related to welfare
3. Interdependency between welfare state and performance-oriented society
a) "Welfare state
aa) General characterisation
bb) State facing growing tasks and new forms of action, changes in both external and internal relations and on the expenses side.
cc) Contents and limits (by fundamental rights) of the principle of efficiency in the realm of social welfare state
b) "Performance-oriented society
c) Criticism of the social principle of performance from a welfare state and fundamental rights perspective
III. Survey of doctrinal deficiencies with regard to fundamental rights with respect to welfare state activities concerning and having an impact on fundamental rights
PART TWO
I. Fundamental rights guarantees
"open" legal doctrine on fundamental rights
fundamental rights policy and interpretation of fundamental rights
1. Discussion of problems of their relationship as preliminary issue
2. Consequences of an "open" fundamental rights legal doctrine
II. Social - "realistic" - understanding of fundamental rights
1. "Dissolution" of the status theory
2. The status theory and the change of the freedom and property-formula
3. The status activus processualis
III. Social "fulfilment of fundamental rights " by the welfare state's public interest functions
1. Fundamental rights as social fundamental rights, freedom through fundamental rights and principle of a social state or, as the case may be, principle of equality
2. Fundamental rights as constitutional or, as the case may be, "state" targets, (also) as positive rules of competence
3. "Welfare state and welfare law component" of fundamental rights
4. The issue of legal protection of (fundamental) rights
a) General issues
b) Legal protection in the narrower sense (judicial protection)
c) Legal protection and protection of fundamental rights in a wider sense (ex ante)
IV. Conclusio
"The open society of constitutional interpreters" - A contribution to a pluralistic and "procedural" constitutional interpretation
1. Part One: Fundamental thesis and state of discussion
a) The previous issues of a Theory of Constitutional Interpretation
b) New issues and thesis
c) Developing the thesis, concept of interpretation
2. Participants in constitutional interpretation
a) Methodological preface
b) Systematic tableau
c) Description of the systematic tableau
3. Evaluating the appraisal
a) Possible objections, criticisms
b) Legitimacy from the perspective of legal-, normative- and interpretation-theory
c) Legitimacy through constitutional theory considerations
d) Specifically: democratic theory reflections as legitimacy
4. Consequences for the "legal" constitutional interpretation
a) Qualification of legal interpretation - a new understanding of its task
b) Especially: extent and intensity of judicial control - distinguishing through the degree of participation
c) Consequences for the organisation and handling of constitutional procedure law
5. New issues for constitutional theory
a) Diverse goals and methods of interpretation with different participants?
b) Tasks for constitutional theory
6. Part Two: The transfer to Europe - the open society of constitutional interpreters in Europe (regional-European)
a) The thesis
b) The specification
c) Europeanisation of legal sources and the desideratum of a European theory of methods
aa) The Europeanisation of legal sources
bb) The desideratum of a European theory of methods
7. Part Three: Who develops International Law in what manner? - Human-legality ("Menschheitsrechtlich")
a) The question of the participants
b) The question of the form
Human Dignity as foundation of the Constitutional State and the political community
A. Clauses protecting Human Dignity as the Textual Foundation of Constitutional Democracies
I. Human Dignity Clauses under International Law
II. A Legal Comparison of the Definitions of the Concept of Human Dignity
1. Historical Development in Germany
2. Comparison of German State Constitutions
3. International Comparison of National Constitutions
B. Human Dignity as a Guiding Principle of the Federal Constitutional Court
I. Constitutional Case-Law Treatment of Human Dignity Clauses
1. Case Law of the Federal Constitutional Court
2. Case law of the German Länder (States) and their (Constitutional) Courts
a) The Human Dignity Jurisprudence of the Bavarian Constitutional Court
b) Other German State Constitutions
II. The Human-Dignity Jurisprudence of Specialized Courts
C. Human Dignity as reflected in Academic Literature
I. Pre-Constitutional and Constitutional Thoughts on Human Dignity
II. A Multitude of Approaches and their Emphasis on Natural Law
III. The Crucial Differentiation: Human Dignity as a Value and as a service rendered by the individual to the State
IV. Unifying proposed Theories as a pragmatic Integration of theoretical Elements
V. Critical Review
D. Own Approach
I. Human Dignity, Culture, Privacy / Personality
1. The Problem
2. Identity Concepts
3. Conclusions
4. Human dignity in the Context of Fellow Citizens (so-called "relationship with "you")
II. Human Dignity in Art. 1(1) BL as a Fundamental Standard
1. Art. 1(1) BL and Fundamental Individual Rights
2. Art. 1(1) and the Governmental Mandate
3. In Particular: the Connection of Human Dignity and Democracy
a) The "Classical" Theory of Distinctions
b) Transformations of Constitutional Language
c) Human- and citizens' Orientation of popular Sovereignty
4. Human Dignity as the (underlying) Fundamental Right to democratic Government
III. Human Dignity in Cultural Transition
IV. The four Dimensions of constitutional Protection of Human Dignity
1. The union of Defense and Protection, Freedom and Participation
2. Substantive and procedural laws to protect Human Dignity
3. Substantive and moral Protection of Human Dignity
4. Contents and Organization
a) Human Dignity and Self-Image
b) The Necessity of Structure
c) Examples
V. Insights: Three current examples for the interpretation of human dignity under the German Constitution
1. Artificial Insemination, Genetic Modification
2. Human dignity of children during the incarceration of their mothers
3. The Right to Die in Dignity
E. Review and Outlook
The rationale of constitutions from a cultural science viewpoint
A. "Constitution" (a legal positivist inventory)
B. The German understanding of constitutions
I. Domestic
II. A constitutional outlook for Europe - Elements of European legal culture
III. Culture
1) Keywords on the matter of "culture"
2) Initial distinctions
3) Culture in the constitution: cultural constitutional law
Detour: Cultural constitutional law in the EU
4) Constitutions as culture
a) Initial propositions
b) Insights
c) Reservations and limits
C. The Limitations of constitutions
Outlook: the "future" of the national constitution in a globalised world
Preambles in the text and context of constitutions
I. Preambles as a current problem
II. Inventory
1. The (inter-) national diversity of manifestations of preambles (in examples)
a) Early classical drafts
b) German Constitutions
Detour: On the constitutional history of German preambles
c) Other western, especially European constitutions - their openness towards international law and peoples
d) European and International Law
2. The normative assessment of preambles in case law and academic literature
III. Preambles between colloquial and legal language
IV. Constitutional theory analysis
1. Citizen-orientated language culture as constitutional culture
2. The preamble as foundation and commitment
3. The link through time
4. Content concordance with other constitutional norms (especially education goals, guarantees for official holidays, oath clauses and commitment articles)
V. Theoretical outline for the interpretation of preambles
1. The inner connection between the different normative techniques
2. The normative binding force of preambles
3. Unity of the Constitution
4. Amendments to preambles in absence of the constitutional legislature?
VI. Constitutional political outlook
The Jurisprudence of European Law - viewed as a Cultural Study
Introduction
First Part: Historical Review
1. The Historical Perspective
2. Special Review: European Politics and Legal Theories
Second Part: European Studies Today
1. Methods, Contexts, Leitmotifs, Theory and Case Law
2. Categories of Literature in Germany and Abroad
Previous Practices
Third Part: European Legal Studies - as Cultural Studies, in Detail
1. The Beginnings
2. Cultural Studies: Questions and Conclusions
Outlook

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