Streitbare Demokratie

The political system of the Federal Republic of Germany is also called wehrhafte or streitbare Demokratie (militant democracy). This implies that the government (Bundesregierung), the parliament (Bundestag) and the judiciary are given extensive powers and duties to defend the freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung (liberal democratic order) against those who want to abolish it. The idea behind the concept is the notion that even a majority rule of the people cannot be allowed to install a totalitarian or autocratic regime like as Enabling Act of 1933, thereby violating the principles of the German constitution, the Basic Law.

Several articles of the German constitution allow a range of different measures to "defend the liberal democratic order".

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