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tice had motivated them. ‘Even if we do not intend to pass a law that
is absolutely correct in the sense of insurance, we do have to strive to
create a just law, a just law which is seen as such by the workers.’ 86
86 Buhl speaking in the Reichstag, 12 Apr. 1889, in Stenographische Berichte,
VII. Legislaturperiode, IV. Session 1888/89, 1535.
ULRIKE HAERENDEL wrote this article at the Max Planck Institute
for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich, and now works
at the Protestant Academy of Tutzing. The author of Die ge setzliche
Invaliditäts- und Altersversicherung und die Alternativen auf ge werk -
schaftlicher und betrieblicher Grundlage (2004), she has been work ing on
the old age pension system in Germany for some years.
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