"Social Justice" and "Human Dignity" in the Weimar Constitution

Authors

  • Hasso Hofmann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i20.605

Keywords:

Human dignity - Social justice - Social state - Social constitutional state - Fundamental social rights - Economic constitutional law

Abstract

The Weimar Reich Constitution placed the order of economic life under the principles of justice and a humane existence for all. Thus it raised the idea of the welfare state for the first time to the level of constitutional law. At the same time, it changed the traditional understanding of fundamental rights. The article deals with the reasons for and consequences of this process and deals with the question of why this development has been broken off in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fecha de envío / Submission date: 23/04/2019

Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 8/05/2019

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Published

2019-05-14

Issue

No. 20 (2019): Historia Constitucional N. 20 (2019)

Section

The Weimar Constitution in its centenary (1919-2019)

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