exercised by the people in elections and plebiscites and by means of separate legislative, executive and judicial organs.
(3) Legislation shall be limited by the constitution, the executive and the administration of justice by legislation and the law.
Article 21
(1) The parties shall participate in forming the political will of the people. They can be freely formed. Their internal organization must conform to democratic principles. They must publicly account for the sources of their funds.
(2) Parties which, according to their aims and the behaviour of their members, seek to impair or abolish the free and democratic basic order or to jeopardize the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany, shall be unconstitutional. The Federal Constitutional Court shall decide on the question of unconstitutionality.
(3) Details shall be regulated by federal legislation.
Article 22
The federal flag shall be black-red-gold.
Article 23
For the time being, this Basic Law shall apply in the territory of the Laender Baden, Bavaria, Bremen, Greater Berlin, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein, Wuerttemberg-Baden and Wuerttemberg Hohenzollern. It shall be put into force for other parts of Germany on their accession.
Article 24
(1) The Federation may, by legislation, transfer sovereign powers to international institutions.
(2) In order to preserve peace, the Federation may join a system of mutual collective security; in doing so it will consent to those
