Wie viel Recht braucht ein Staat?

Gerade in schwierigen (Krisen-)Zeiten stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit der Staat unser Leben mitbestimmen darf. Foto: Parlament/Johannes Zinner

Christoph Bezemek analyses the basic preconditions of statehood, the position of the individual in thepolitical community and the question of which rights and duties shape the relationships between theindividual and the community.

Liberal democracy depends on pre-conditions that can only be met if thelegal claims that the individual andcommunity make are constantly re-evaluated. To carry out this evalua-tion, we need to return to the founda-tions of the political community. The lawyer Christoph Bezemek analyses the functional conditions inherent to a political community and their effects on its laws.

"How many laws for(m)the state?" - Sedcard Christoph Bezemek

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