{"id":4312,"date":"2020-08-19T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/verfassung-und-demokratie"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:40:16","slug":"constitution-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/verfassung-und-demokratie","title":{"rendered":"CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Due to the rising COVID-19 numbers in Vienna, we have decided that no analogue events with an audience will take place at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue for the time being. The conversation will be recorded and is available from 1.10.2020 on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCYASvMdCGDCluxOyeJ5du4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youtube channel<\/a> retrievable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hans Kelsen and the Austrian Federal Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A republican history lesson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1920, Hans Kelsen, the \u201elawyer of the century\u201c, as DIE ZEIT called him, drafted the republican federal constitution of the new Austria as a non-partisan constitutional judge.<br \/>\nIt was Karl Renner who, after the collapse of the monarchy, brought the former university professor, advisor to the Imperial and Royal War Minister and Emperor Hans Kelsen to the State Chancellery in November 1918. In November 1918, after the collapse of the monarchy, it was Karl Renner who brought Hans Kelsen, former university professor and advisor to the Imperial and Royal Minister of War and the Emperor, into the State Chancellery and commissioned him to work on a federal constitution for the young republic. On 1 October 1920, the Constituent National Assembly unanimously passed the new federal constitutional law. And this year it celebrates its 100th birthday.<br \/>\nThe clear and sober language of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law has often been praised; it corresponds to Kelsen's \"Pure Theory of Law\", at the centre of which is a conception of law \"purified of all political ideology\". According to Kelsen, legal norms describe an \"ought\" which, unlike religious and ethical norms, is generally enforceable. Accordingly, Kelsen defined the state as a legal order.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Heinz Fischer, <\/strong><\/em>Lawyer and university professor, was Austrian Federal President for 12 years (2004-2016). Prior to this, he held various political offices: he was a SP\u00d6 member of the National Council, Minister of Science and President of the Austrian National Council (1990-2002)<br \/>\nIn 2018, he was government coordinator of the \"Year of Remembrance and Commemoration\", in which the Republic of Austria celebrated its 100th birthday. Since 2018, he has been Co-Chair of the Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Moderation<br \/>\n<strong>Wolfgang Maderthaner<\/strong>, Historian, Association for the History of the Labour Movement<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aufgrund der steigenden COVID-19 Zahlen in Wien haben wir beschlossen, dass im Bruno Kreisky Forum f\u00fcr internationalen Dialog vorl\u00e4ufig keine analogen Veranstaltungen mit Publikum stattfinden werden. Das Gespr\u00e4ch wird aufgezichnet und ist ab 1.10.2020 auf unserem Youtube Kanal abrufbar. &nbsp; VERFASSUNG UND DEMOKRATIE Hans Kelsen und die \u00d6sterreichische Bundesverfassung Eine republikanische Geschichtsstunde 1920 hat Hans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4313,"template":"","format":[33],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[39],"class_list":["post-4312","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-geschichte-bildung-und-wissenschaft","format-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VERFASSUNG UND DEMOKRATIE - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/constitution-and-democracy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VERFASSUNG UND DEMOKRATIE - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aufgrund der steigenden COVID-19 Zahlen in Wien haben wir beschlossen, dass im Bruno Kreisky Forum f\u00fcr internationalen Dialog vorl\u00e4ufig keine analogen Veranstaltungen mit Publikum stattfinden werden. 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