Samenvatting

If the parliament agrees to it in second reading, the Dutch Constitution will be introduced by a general provision: ‘The Constitution guarantees fundamental rights and the democratic constitutional state.’ This concludes a discussion that mainly concerned a preamble. Christian politicians regularly argued for a reference to God in a preamble. Bart Verbrugh argued in the state commission-Cals/Donner for recognition of God‘s authority in the Constitution. The later Thomassen State Commission did not propose a preamble, but a general provision, which was adopted by the government in an abbreviated form.