Article 20
[Constitutional principles – Right of resistance]
(1) The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic and social
federal state.
(2) All state authority is derived from the people. It shall be exercised
by the people through elections and other votes and
through specific legislative, executive and judicial bodies.
(3) The legislature shall be bound by the constitutional order,
the executive and the judiciary by law and justice.
(4) All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking
to abolish this constitutional order, if no other remedy
is available.
Bookmarks