TY - JOUR
TI - The right to Social Security in the European Constitutions
AU - Eichenhofer, Eberhard
TI - The right to Social Security in the European Constitutions
AB - 
	In the Basic Law (“Grundgesetz”) – the German Constitution – a special and coherent catalogue of social human rights is not foreseen. Only a few social rights’ guarantees primarily as to women, mothers, children and handicapped persons are explicitly stipulated. Therefore, in the current German legal thought social human rights are regarded as neither fundamental, nor integral parts of human rights. As the full spectrum of human rights acknowledged in international law, among them above all the basic social human rights to work, education, health, accommodation, social security or social assistance (Articles 22-26 UDHR), does not correspond to the far more restricted catalogue of human rights explicitly figured out in the Basic Law as fundamental rights (“Grundrechte”), the doctrine argues even more that due to their very legal nature social human rights could not and never exist.
VL - 2016
IS - Vol. 23
PY - 2016
SN - 1429-9585
C1 - 2544-4654
SP - 141
EP - 150
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/szppips/artykul/the-right-to-social-security-in-the-european-constitutions
KW - Germany
KW - social security rights
KW - constitution