The Basic Law has proved itself throughout a difficult and challenging generation of reconstruction and growth as the foundation of one of the most stable and flourishing democratic states in the world.
Message to President Walter Scheel on the 30th Anniversary of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany
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