CHAPTER II: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE GERMANS
Section I: The Individual
ARTICLE 109
All Germans are equal before the law.
Men and women have the same fundamental civil rights and duties.
Public legal privileges or disadvantages of birth or of rank are abolished. Titles of nobility [ . . . ] may be bestowed no longer. [ . . . ] Orders and decorations shall not be conferred by the state.
No German shall accept titles or orders from a foreign government.
ARTICLE 110
Citizenship of the Reich and the states is acquired in accordance with the provisions of a Reich law. [ . . . ]
ARTICLE 111
All Germans shall enjoy liberty of travel and residence throughout the whole Reich. [ . . . ]
ARTICLE 112
Every German is permitted to emigrate to a foreign country. [ . . . ]
ARTICLE 114
Personal liberty is inviolable. Curtailment or deprivation of personal liberty by a public authority is permissible only by authority of law.
Persons who have been deprived of their liberty must be informed at the latest on the following day by whose authority and for what reasons they have been held. They shall receive the opportunity without delay of submitting objections to their deprivation of liberty.
ARTICLE 115
The house of every German is his sanctuary and is inviolable. Exceptions are permitted only by authority of law.
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ARTICLE 117
The secrecy of letters and all postal, telegraph, and telephone communications is inviolable. Exceptions are inadmissible except by national law.
ARTICLE 118
Every German has the right, within the limits of the general laws, to express his opinion freely by word, in writing, in print, in picture form, or in any other way. [ . . . ]
Censorship is forbidden. [ . . . ]
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