The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution
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The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution
About This Book
The Draft European Constitution was arguably both an attempt to constitutionalise the Union, re-framing that project in the language of the state, and an attempt to stretch the boundaries of constitutionalism itself, re-imagining that concept to accommodate the sui generis European Union. The (partial) failure of this project is the subject of this collection of essays. The collection brings together leading EU constitutional scholars to consider, with the benefit of hindsight, the purportedly constitutional character of the proposed Constitutional Treaty, the reasons for its rejection by voters in France and the Netherlands, the ongoing implications of this episode for the European project, and the lessons it teaches us about what constitutionalism really means.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From the Years of the Convention to the Years of Brexit. Where Do We Go from Here?
- 3. Constitutionalisation without Constitution: A Democracy Problem
- 4. The EUâs Constitutional Moment: A View from the Ground Up
- 5. Treaty Amendment, the Draft Constitution and European Integration
- 6. The European Constitution and Europeâs Dialectical Federalism
- 7. The Two Europes
- 8. The Competence Catalogue in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon: Improvement, but at a Cost
- 9. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EUâs Shallow Constitutionalism
- 10. The EU Constitution, Sovereignty and the Problem of Primacy
- 11. Europeâs Constitutional Overture
- 12. The European Constitution and âthe Compulsion to Grand Politicsâ
- 13. Recollections from and Reflections on the Making and Failure of the European Constitution
- Index
- Copyright Page