Talk:Constitution of Denmark
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[edit] Wrong date
the reference to wikisource is fucked. its supposed to be june but the article is called something with july. someone with sparetime please fix this
- Good spotted. Should be corrected now. (you can actually just do this stuff yourself btw) Twthmoses 23:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Blog
The is an external link to a very right wing American analyzing the danish constitution from his own political point of view. I don't think that is very usefull to link. It is most certainly has no NPOV.
For instance one major critical point of his is that the constitution requires the government to ensure that no danish starves, and requires the government to protect the general welfare of the people. He considers that a critical weakness because "it encourages a big state".
Should the link stay? Can I write the authors political stand point in the link, to warn any who might wish to follow it? carewolf 21:49 23 January 2007 (UTC).
- I've removed it. Political blogs are irrelevant here. Valentinian T / C 23:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Constitution before 1849
If I remember my history right Frederik III introduced the first danish constitution in 1660. It was just not a democratic constitution, but one that introduced absolutism. It might be worth mentioning. Also just to clear up that constitutions don't need always be democratic. carewolf 21:58 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- I found this on [1]:
En forfatning er ikke så uundværlig for en nations sammenhold, som man skulle tro. England har f.eks. ikke nogen grundlov, men dog et meget velfungerende demokrati, der hviler på gammel hævd. Enevældige konger i Europa behøvede heller ingen forfatning. Magten og retten til fordeling af den strålede fra himlen ned til kongen og sikrede hans enevælde. Det eneste land i Europa, som havde en skreven enevældig forfatning, var i øvrigt Danmark med kongeloven af 1665.
- It seems Lex Regia was one of the first constitutions in Europe, but one that granted the king absolute power. Carewolf 12:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
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- The Lex Regia could be considered a constitution. I once heard something about Savoy being Europe's only other truly absolutist entity apart from Denmark and Norway, but I've never heard about a written document like the Lex Regia in that country. Interestingly, the contents of the Lex Regia were a secret for many years, but the text was published in 1709. [2] But when it comes to documents regulating the relationship between monarch and state, the Magna Carta is much older. Valentinian T / C 23:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
