Records Relating to Bonn Constitution Basic Law... | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

The Basic Law for the Federal Republish of Germany, also known as the Bonn Constitution.  The constitution was adopted in Bonn by a Parliamentary Council of 65 German political leaders.  It was approved on 8 May 1949 and came into effect on 23 May 1949.  The document consists of a Preamble and nine chapters, or 146 articles.