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This article focuses on the evolution of criminal justice policies in Denmark during its golden age. Denmark had a fundamentalistic criminal system from the Reformation in 1536 and on to the latter part of 1700s. The citizens were without legal rights. The theocratic system entered in the Rationalism and Age of Enlightenment. Civil rights of liberties were won in the U.S. and France at the end of the 1700s. In the middle of the 1800s, the democratic Rechtsstaat was created in response to the autocracy and the protect the citizens against injustices by the State. The Rechtsstaat principle in criminal legislation have been endorsed by the Danish political parties for several years. Lately, it has been abandoned by prominent politicians.