The financial crisis in the Eurozone and the entry of some Member States to rescue programs have brought about major changes in the institutional structure of the EU economic governance. They have also been the subject of a quite interesting case law in the CJEU and the ECtHR. However, this...

This chapter examines the nature of colonial constitutionalism and the traditions that shaped the colonial founding; it also discusses the extent to which federalism was understood by the American founders as a modern innovation to secure republicanism