Democracy, subsidiarity, and citizenship in the 'European commonwealth'

Law and Philosophy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-356

  Maccormick, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Commonwealth; Constitution; Democracy; European union; Subsidiarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031488661     PISSN: 01675249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3504980     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. See B. Ackerman, 'The Storrs Lectures: Discovering the Constitution', Yale Law Journal 93 (1984), 1013-72.
2. Compare Catherine Richmond, 'Preserving the Identity Crisis: Autonomy, System and Sovereignty in European Law,' pp. 377-420 of the present volume, Sections II.1 and II.2.
3. See H. Kelsen (M. Knight trans.) The Pure Theory of Law (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), Chapter 9. Compare, in the present volume, Richmond 'Preserving the Identity Crisis', Section III.1 for a more thorough analysis, allowing that the 'international law' perspective is not the only possibility here.
4. Compare MacCormick, 'Sovereignty, Myth and Reality', in Towards Universal Law: Trends in National European and International Lawmaking, ed. N. Jareborg (Uppsala: Justus Förlag, 1995), pp. 227-48 at 242-3 (De Lege: Yearbook of the faculty of Law in the University of Uppsala, no. 5); see also 'Beyond the Sovereign State', Modern Law Review 56 (1993), pp. 1-23.
5. Compare MacCormick, 'Sovereignty, Myth and Reality', in Towards Universal Law: Trends in National European and International Lawmaking, ed. N. Jareborg (Uppsala: Justus Förlag, 1995), pp. 227-48 at 242-3 (De Lege: Yearbook of the faculty of Law in the University of Uppsala, no. 5); see also 'Beyond the Sovereign State', Modern Law Review 56 (1993), pp. 1-23.
6. See D. Hume, Essays Moral Political and Literary (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), pp. 499-516 (Part II, Essay 16).
7. See BvR 2134/92 and for an English translation of the case report, see [1994] 1 CMLR 57; discussed in N. MacCormick, 'The Maastricht-Urteil: Sovereignty Now', European Law Journal 1 (1994), pp. 259-66.
8. See BvR 2134/92, and [1994] 1 CMLR 57.
9. For a discussion of 'civic' versus ethnic nationalism in relation to this concept, see my 'Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Post-Sovereign State', in Political Studies 44 (1996), pp. 553-67 at 562-3. (Special issue Constitutionalism in Transformation: European and Theoretical Perspectives, ed. R. Bellamy and D. Castiglione).
10. For a discussion of 'civic' versus ethnic nationalism in relation to this concept, see my 'Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Post-Sovereign State', in Political Studies 44 (1996), pp. 553-67 at 562-3. (Special issue Constitutionalism in Transformation: European and Theoretical Perspectives, ed. R. Bellamy and D. Castiglione).
11. W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (New York: Legal Classics Library, 1983), I.50.
12. J. Bentham, A Comment on the Commentaries and a Fragment on Government, ed. J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (London: AthlonePress, 1977), pp. 461-73, esp. at 471-3 (i.e., A Fragment on Government, Chapter 3).
13. See F. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol. 1, Rules and Order (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976), pp. 5-9, 14-17, 29-34.