and early on I came across this:
Article 2
[Personal freedoms]
(1) Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others or offend against the constitutional order or the moral law.
(2) Every person shall have the right to life and physical integrity. Freedom of the person shall be inviolable. These rights may be interfered with only pursuant to a law.
It seems right there is the problem; the Constitution means what it means....unless it offends the moral law (whatever that is) or unless someone wants to pass a law saying otherwise.
It reminds me of the meme showing the signers of the American Constitution saying "unless there is an emergency, right?"
Well there certainly is a lot of room for interpretation in it. If you read on and deeper into that document (Article 74, (1) Concurrent legislative power shall extend to the following matters) you will find the word "medical" in three places, any one of which could allow the court's interpretation.
I feel like so many Americans don't understand the blessing that is their constitution (not referring to you or anyone on this board). Your constitution is above government, that's HUGE! So many countries don't have that luxury. Most countries constitutions are below the authority of the government. That's why governments can make so many amendments, laws that contradict, or abolish god-given rights citizens SHOULD have from birth. It's really sickening.
It's also why I will always advocate that my home, Canada, follow thy neighbors to the south, and be rebuilt as a constitutional republic. The type of constitutional republic it was initially designed to be at the start, not the hot mess she's become now with corrupt politicians, monopoly corporations, and ABC agencies destroying it.
Best of luck in doing that, Canada anon, best of luck. I do appreciate our Constitution because it is an enumerated collection of things the government CANNOT do. But you seem to understand our history, so you know that our Constitution is constantly under attack from within, and that the struggle to keep in inviolate is eternal. The anti-Constitutional people in this country are like a cancer, and the price we have to pay to keep our Constitutional rights is eternal vigilance.
One thing to note -- if you haven't noticed this already -- is that our Constitution is framed in a way that we DO NOT derive our rights from the Constitution itself. The Constitution is merely a codification of Natural Rights, which come not from government but from God. The Constitution says that.
It's why the Left has been so feverishly trying to remove God from our culture, for with no God, comes no natural God-given rights. But God is a persistent presence in America.
Any effort to establish a new Constitution in Canada (which I know is a fairly secular nation, but the church still exists there) should be established on rights given to all humans by God. Remove the state from it entirely, and frame the new Constitution around God-given rights being superior to government, and make it a list of things the government CANNOT do.
I wish you all the best, you have a heavy lift ahead of you.
I sometimes thank the fact that even here in third-world Sri Lanka, I'm protected by an otherwise doofus constitution. The constitution prevents the mandate of any medical procedure if it goes against the person's conscience (by extension of fundamental rights) and the government had to do various iterations of bluffing to make people get the vaccine. In the end they had to roll back any gazette entries before they went into effect because the legal ramifications would destroy them (presumably).
"I scanned through an Englsh translation of the German Constitution" —
We do NOT have a constitution. In German it´s called "Grundgesetz" not "Verfassung". This law was authorized (imposed?) by the US and GB. We should have had a real constitution after reuniting and voted on it. That was denied by our occupying powers USA and GB. The Soviet Union offered a peace treaty, but then the Russians were weak and it was much more convenient to hold Germany in permanent subordination. — Some years ago Russia gave herself a new constitution, approved by the people. Russia is now legal successor to the Soviet Union and thus legitimate occupying power of Germany. Remember that is the country still at war with half of the world. And now we´re at war with one of our occupiers forced into by another which is... (Britain doesn´t count anymore). Not a good idea, I think. — Germany still is a Deep State asset and we must wait until the destruction of the old guard to finally take our destiny in our own hands.
I scanned through an Englsh translation of the German Constitution
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html
and early on I came across this: Article 2 [Personal freedoms]
(1) Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others or offend against the constitutional order or the moral law.
(2) Every person shall have the right to life and physical integrity. Freedom of the person shall be inviolable. These rights may be interfered with only pursuant to a law.
It seems right there is the problem; the Constitution means what it means....unless it offends the moral law (whatever that is) or unless someone wants to pass a law saying otherwise.
It reminds me of the meme showing the signers of the American Constitution saying "unless there is an emergency, right?"
What a garbage constitution. Right to development of ‘personality’, whatever that is.
Well there certainly is a lot of room for interpretation in it. If you read on and deeper into that document (Article 74, (1) Concurrent legislative power shall extend to the following matters) you will find the word "medical" in three places, any one of which could allow the court's interpretation.
I feel like so many Americans don't understand the blessing that is their constitution (not referring to you or anyone on this board). Your constitution is above government, that's HUGE! So many countries don't have that luxury. Most countries constitutions are below the authority of the government. That's why governments can make so many amendments, laws that contradict, or abolish god-given rights citizens SHOULD have from birth. It's really sickening.
It's also why I will always advocate that my home, Canada, follow thy neighbors to the south, and be rebuilt as a constitutional republic. The type of constitutional republic it was initially designed to be at the start, not the hot mess she's become now with corrupt politicians, monopoly corporations, and ABC agencies destroying it.
Best of luck in doing that, Canada anon, best of luck. I do appreciate our Constitution because it is an enumerated collection of things the government CANNOT do. But you seem to understand our history, so you know that our Constitution is constantly under attack from within, and that the struggle to keep in inviolate is eternal. The anti-Constitutional people in this country are like a cancer, and the price we have to pay to keep our Constitutional rights is eternal vigilance.
One thing to note -- if you haven't noticed this already -- is that our Constitution is framed in a way that we DO NOT derive our rights from the Constitution itself. The Constitution is merely a codification of Natural Rights, which come not from government but from God. The Constitution says that.
It's why the Left has been so feverishly trying to remove God from our culture, for with no God, comes no natural God-given rights. But God is a persistent presence in America.
Any effort to establish a new Constitution in Canada (which I know is a fairly secular nation, but the church still exists there) should be established on rights given to all humans by God. Remove the state from it entirely, and frame the new Constitution around God-given rights being superior to government, and make it a list of things the government CANNOT do.
I wish you all the best, you have a heavy lift ahead of you.
I sometimes thank the fact that even here in third-world Sri Lanka, I'm protected by an otherwise doofus constitution. The constitution prevents the mandate of any medical procedure if it goes against the person's conscience (by extension of fundamental rights) and the government had to do various iterations of bluffing to make people get the vaccine. In the end they had to roll back any gazette entries before they went into effect because the legal ramifications would destroy them (presumably).
"I scanned through an Englsh translation of the German Constitution" —
We do NOT have a constitution. In German it´s called "Grundgesetz" not "Verfassung". This law was authorized (imposed?) by the US and GB. We should have had a real constitution after reuniting and voted on it. That was denied by our occupying powers USA and GB. The Soviet Union offered a peace treaty, but then the Russians were weak and it was much more convenient to hold Germany in permanent subordination. — Some years ago Russia gave herself a new constitution, approved by the people. Russia is now legal successor to the Soviet Union and thus legitimate occupying power of Germany. Remember that is the country still at war with half of the world. And now we´re at war with one of our occupiers forced into by another which is... (Britain doesn´t count anymore). Not a good idea, I think. — Germany still is a Deep State asset and we must wait until the destruction of the old guard to finally take our destiny in our own hands.
Interesting!
Yo Germany. The world has witnessed first-hand your penchant for authoritarianism a time or two already.
Y'all need to get over yourselves.