Costituzione 05 giugno 1953

Costituzione, 5 giugno 1953.

Part I
General Provisions

(Omissis)

Section 4
State Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the Established Church of Denmark, and, as such, it shall be supported by the State.

(Omissis)

Part VII
State Church

Section 66
Church Constitution

The constitution of the Established Church shall be laid down by Statute.

Section 67
Right to Worship

The citizens shall be entitled to form congregations for the worship of God in a manner consistent with their convictions, provided that nothing at variance with good morals or public order shall be taught or done.

Section 68
Church Contributions

No one shall be liable to make personal contributions to any denomination other than the one to which he adheres.

Section 69
Regulation of Other Religious Bodies

Rules for religious bodies dissenting from the Established Church shall be laid down by Statute.

Section 70
Freedom of Religion

No person shall for reasons of his creed or descent be deprived of access to complete enjoyment of his civic and political rights, nor shall he for such reasons evade compliance with any common civic duty.

Part VIII
Individual Rights

Section 71
Personal Liberty

(1) Personal liberty shall be inviolable. No Danish subject shall in any manner whatever be deprived of his liberty because of his political or religious convictions or because of his descent.
(2) A person shall be deprived of his liberty only where this is warranted by law.
(3) Any person who is taken into custody shall be brought before a judge within twenty-four hours. Where the person taken into custody cannot be releasee immediately, the judge shall decide, stating the grounds in an order to be given as soon as possible and at the latest within three days, whether the person taken into custody shall be committed to prison, and in cases where he can be released on bail, the judge shall determine the nature and amount of such bail. This provision may be departed from by Statute as far as Greenland is concerned, if for local considerations such departure may be deemed necessary.
(4) The finding given by the judge may at once be separately appealed against by the person concerned to a higher court of justice.
(5) No person shall be remanded for an offence that can involve only punishment consisting of a fine or mitigated imprisonment.
(6) Outside criminal procedure the legality of deprivation of liberty which is not by order of a judicial authority, and which is not warranted by the legislation dealing with aliens, shall at the request of the person who has been deprived of his liberty, or at the request of any person acting on his behalf, be brought before the ordinary courts of justice or other judicial authority for decision. Rules governing this procedure shall be provided by Statute.
(7) The persons mentioned in Subsection (6) shall be under supervision by a board set up by the Parliament, to which board the persons concerned shall be permitted to apply.

(Omissis)

Section 78
Freedom of Association

(1) The citizens shall be entitled without previous permission to form associations for any lawful purpose.
(2) Associations employing violence, or aiming at attaining their object by violence, by instigation to violence, or by similar punishable influence on people of other views, shall be dissolved by judgment.
(3) No association shall be dissolved by any government measure. However, an association may be temporarily prohibited, provided that proceedings be immediately taken against it for its dissolution.
(4) Cases relating to the dissolution of political associations may without special permission be brought before the highest court of justice of the Realm.
(5) The legal effects of the dissolution shall be determined by Statute.

Section 79
Freedom of Assembly

The citizens shall without previous permission be entitled to assemble unarmed. The police shall be entitled to be present at public meetings. Open-air meetings may be prohibited when it is feared that they may constitute a danger to the public peace.

(Omissis)