Abstract One of the principles underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Abstract

One of the principles underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, if not the greatest in quantity fundamental one, is the general [i]or[/i] abstract notion of human dignity, shared as a belonging to all value by western democracies. During the 20th centenary it has become a universal of international and domestic law. In this paper, a certain of the many questions arising not at home of the concept of human dignity will be addressed at tracing the approach to human dignity taken in the Charter jurisprudence of the superlative Court of Canada and of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht. To