!!!Staatsgrundgesetz

Fundamental Laws governing the general rights of the citizens were 
passed on December 21, 1867; they laid down the fundamental rights and 
the right of personal liberty of citizens of the Austrian half of the 
Austro-Hungarian Empire and, with amendments (freedom of art, data 
protection), are still part of the Austrian Constitution. These 
fundamental laws of a liberal state under the rule of law were 
established to protect individual liberty against encroachment by the 
state authority. A commission which forms part of the Federal 
Chancellery (since 1964) has been working out a new body of laws with 
due regard to fundamental social rights (e.g. the right to work) on 
the basis of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and 
Fundamental Freedoms.

!Literature
P. Sieghart, Die geltenden Menschenrechte, 1988.


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