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Does Germany have a constitution yet? Week 1,786.

In honor of the official collapse of the German government this week — in the Germany-est move ever, Chancellor Olaf Scholz won by losing — The Bupkes is launching a new regular feature. We are calling it

ConWatch.

Every week, The Bupkes will check if Germany¹ has a constitution yet and forthwith inform its readers of the result.

For the uninitiated:

It has been 1,785 weeks since what erstwhile West Germans like to call “reunification” — that is, the glorious end to a divided Germany and the subsequent merging of East and West, officially on Oct. 3, 1990. And all without a shot fired!²

From its like so totally denazified refounding in 1949 until that point, the Federal Republic of Germany — not to be confused with the Federal Republic of Germany since that point, but hold that thought! — did not have a constitution (Verfassung), but a Basic Law (Grundgesetz).

This was a very on-brand way of one Germany telling ano…