Block stamp: Basic ideas of democracy - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1986 - 80 Pfennig

The issue of the stamp block wants to bring closer the recent history of the Federal Republic of Germany. It concludes the series entitled "Basic Thoughts of Democracy", which began in 1981 with the three special stamps "Rule of Law," "Separation of Powers," "People's Sovereignty," the stamp block "Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany," as well as the Federal Government, Länder, and Local Authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany. , "Equal Rights of Men and Women" and "30 Years of the Bundeswehr". The history of the Federal Republic of Germany is the history of the resurgent parliamentary democracy. The stamp block "Important Buildings in the History of the Federal Republic of Germany" makes that clear. These stamps with representations of the Reichstag, the Museum Alexander Koenig and the Bundeshaus should inspire thinking about history. In the years 1948 and 1949 the Koenig Museum adopted the Parliamentary Council, which created the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. Konrad Adenauer, Theodor Heuss, Elisabeth Selbert, Helene Weber and Carlo Schmid - to name but a few significant members of this body - worked on the foundations of the liberal democratic constitution in the Koenig Museum, which has since shaped our state. For the first time in German constitutional history, the dignity of man was defined as the basis of all state action. Stamps reflect contemporary history. This series of important buildings in the history of the Federal Republic can help to raise the awareness of the citizens of our state that they live in a liberal parliamentary democracy that has grown and is supported by the consent of the citizens. (Text: The President of the German Bundestag, Bonn)