1. Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Federal Republic of Germany (BVerfGE) 7, 198, 207.
2. R Alexy, A Theory of Constitutional Rights, J Rivers (tr), (Oxford University Press 2002), 66–69.
3. See, for example, Case “relating to certain aspect of laws on the use of languages in education in Belgium” v Belgium (merits), Series A no 6, (ECHR 23 July 1968), 31; Marckx v Belgium, Series A no 31, (ECHR 13 March 1978), 15, para 31; Keegan v Ireland, Series A no 290, (ECHR 26 May 1994), 19, paras 48, 49.
4. Ibid, 189.