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of legislation pending the reunification of Germany. However, when reunification took place in 1990, the Basic Law was retained as the definitive constitution of reunified Germany. Its original territory of application Geltungsbereich--that is, the states that were initially included in the Federal Republic of Germany--consisted of the three Western Allies' zones of occupation, but at the insistence of the Western Allies, formally excluded West Berlin.

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