The German constitution has a bias towards consensus, since it explicitly encourages comparable living standards for all.
Germany often argues its case in legal terms: such remedies would be illegal under the treaties or the German constitution.
The new German constitution of 1949 was about limiting powers of any one part of government, just like in the Constitution of the United States.
That is the way it was meant to be when the German constitution was written after the war, with the Americans having a strong hand on the pen.
Thirty-one-year-old Fereshta Ludin, who was denied a job in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1998 because she wore a headscarf in school, went to courts arguing that the German constitution guaranteed her religious freedom.
These are all owned and financed by the city council, since, under the German constitution, culture is the responsibility of the individual states (of which Berlin is one), not the federal government.
Under the German constitution, any agency that takes decisions affecting specific individuals or companies, as supervisors must do, is subject to the control of ministers who are in turn responsible for their actions to parliament.
Critics claim the mechanism is tantamount to German taxpayers funding foreign governments in breach of the country's constitution.
The European Constitution is largely the product of a long-running Franco-German campaign to construct an economic, political and strategic rival to the United States.
But the ECB is prevented both by its own constitution and by the passionately held views of the Bundesbank - the German central bank and the ECB's most influential shareholder - from purchasing substantially more than that.
German voters are strongly opposed to paying for Greece to avoid default, and Germany's constitution also sets legal hurdles to any bail-out that might threaten the euro's stability.
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