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?"
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
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?"
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).