EU Constitutionalism in the state constitutional tradition

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Series Details No. 21, 2006
Publication Date 2006
ISSN 1725-6739
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This paper sets out to examine whether and on what basis it is possible to 'carry over' the state constitutional tradition to the European Union context. It makes a case for a context-transcending five-dimensional conception of constitutionalism, embracing legal order, political system, self-authorization, societal integration and political reflexivity. it argues that the EU presently possesses a truncated constitutionalism in which only the first two dimensions are well-developed, and that its long-term legitimacy depends upon the fuller development of the last three dimensions- whether or not in the form of a documentary Constitution.

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