Showing 1 - 10 of 1,858
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001217272
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001189732
In the eighth century, Charles Martel confiscated Church property to make distributions of benefices and precaria to his vassals. This project was an investment in state capacity and secularizations of Church property were continued under Charles' son Pippin III. Many scholars have characterized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927197
To the question: Is constitutional review by a Constitutional Court law or politics? This article responds with a survey of various notions of the political, providing illustrations drawn from France and Europe and assessing Louis Favoreu's role in French debates on the legitimacy of review. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716536
Democracy is explained by giving the power to the government, with the consent of citizens, expressing their will, directly or indirectly through voting. Promoting and respecting individual and collective rights and freedoms is the foundation of democracy. Citizen participation is remarkable on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991949
European constitution should be examined as a process – as constitutionalisation – rather than a standstill, once …-made legal phenomenon. Moreover, this process has been a differentiated one: not all the aspects of European constitution have … each stage receives its colouring from a particular constitution. Reflecting the temporal and functional primacy of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176248
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198104
Europe’s current constitutional landscape is marked by an underlying conflict between alternative strategies of integration related to different economic and social conflicts. Whereas constitutional structuring in the EU member states revolves around conflicts reminiscent of 19th and 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200138
A rough balance of political power between monarchs and a militarized landed aristocracy characterized medieval Western Europe. Scholars have argued that this balance of power contributed to a tradition of limited government and constitutional bargaining. I argue that fifth and sixth century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132620