Dare more civil society. On Representative Democracy, Citizenship and the Need to RememberDare more civil society. On Representative Democracy, Citizenship and the Need to Remember

The Federal Republic of Germany is a representative democracy - at least at the federal level. Legislation lies exclusively in the hands of the Bundestag and Bundesrat - this is what the fathers and mothers of the Basic Law decided in the Parliamentary Council in 1948/49 and laid down in the constitution. The Basic Law does…