The European Constitution: sovereignty, legitimacy and constituent power

On the basis of Hannah Arendt’s and Carl Schmitt’s writings on the constituent power, this article sets out to develop an interpretative framework which would aid the understanding of the legitimation crisis of European integration initiated by the EU constitutional failure of 2004. The question rai...

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Main Author: Signe Larsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2014-06-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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Online Access:http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-9-no-3-2014/73-conference-paper/488-the-european-constitution-sovereignty-legitimacy-and-constituent-power