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REALISATION

Pending

RULEWORK

pending

CONCEPT

(started 01/24)

The development of the Basic Law is documented by the fact that the various the various versions of the Basic Law in their chronological sequence are summarised in one document.

Data source

I use the rtf download from DocPatch at https://gg.docpatch.org/#herunterladen as the source for the legal texts of the respective versions of the Basic Law (many thanks for your effort, I would have expected the same from bundestag.de, but there you can view pdf scans that look like they have been faxed). To determine which articles have been amended compared to the previous version, I use the list of amendments according to Änderungsgesetze Grundgesetze. (Of course, this is not a scientific, but an artistic work, so I, as well as DocPatch, take no responsibility for the accuracy of the texts).

Font

Pending

Temporal component

The temporal component of the development of "Grundgesetz" is represented by the fact that the degree of coverage of the printing colour of the respective version of the text corresponds to the proportion of the validity of the corresponding text in relation to the total age of the "Grundgesetz". The "Grundgesetz" will be 28,855 days old on the May 23rd 2024. The original version of May 23rd 1945 was amended for the first time on 30 August 1951, i.e. after 2,291 days, so the original version of the Basic Law is shown with a density of 7.94%.

Additions and deletions

Deleted and inserted articles must be inserted in such a way that unchanged articles are always on top of each other. For this purpose, newly inserted articles are inserted in such a way that the subsequent articles are also moved for the previous versions. Even if articles are deleted, the structure of the previous versions is retained so that unchanged articles are in the same position across all versions. The aim of all insertions and deletions is to ensure that related texts can be placed on top of each other.

dimension

We will see.