Based on the Weimar Constitution,the German Basic Law has drawn great lessons from the former in various aspects of the constitutional status of the President,the safeguard of the Constitution,and has made norms of rights as the core norms.In his works the Federal Republic of Germany the Constitutional Framework,Professor Hesse has thoroughly elaborated the functional and open nature of the basic law.He asserts that the primary task of the Constitution is to establish a functional political unity for the na...