Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
ISBN: 978-0-19-953546-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This book argues that the constitutional question cannot and should not so easily disappear from the EU's legal and political horizon. The European Union cannot deny either its own unique constitutional past or the continuing relevance of the broader history of the project of state constitutionalism. The EU's own constitutional past is inscribed in its mature legal order and in its specialized institutional framework which bestow on the Union its distinctive legal and institutional identity.
This identity notwithstanding, the book argues that the EU suffers from excluding core elements of state constitutionalism: A framework of popular self-rule, a well-nurtured sense of a distinctive 'society' as the setting of the constitution, and a self-styled constitutional discourse as the common vernacular of fundamental political debate.
The book argues that the EU's modest constitutional inheritance will continue to be inadequate to resolve its problems of legitimacy as the world's first post-state polity. It explores whether, building on that modest inheritance, the EU can still find its own distinctive route to constitutional maturity.
Zielgruppe
Lawyers, political scientists and constitutional theorists studying the European Union and postnational constitutionalism.
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1: A Constitution of Deep Disputation
2: Framing the Constitution
3: The Legal Order
4: The Political System
5: The Constituent Power
6: The Social Setting
7: The Future of the European Constitution