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Is the Federal Constitutional Court too powerful?
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Is the Federal Constitutional Court too powerful? The National Politics of Germany GV2932. "Autonomous Constitutional Courts are a valid indication of a vital democracy of the Western tradition".1 The Federal Republic of Germany is a country with an extraordinarily powerful Constitutional Court. Before engaging into the debate of whether the Constitutional Court is "too powerful" in the Federal Republic of Germany, we must examine its functions, its composition, and the main objectives of this institution. The derived conclusions, along with a thorough examination of the use the Constitutional Court has made of its powers, will lead to the final verdict: Has the Constitutional Court become too powerful? In Germany, the approval of an institution of judicial review is a product of the twentieth century and even more accurately, a product of the post-war period. Some argue, quite correctly, that the Constitutional Court is a development that arose from the calamities that Federal Germany...
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