The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution最新文献

The Two Europes 两个欧洲

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 2018-06-20 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-007

N. Barber

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Treaty Amendment, the Draft Constitution and European Integration 条约修正、宪法草案与欧洲一体化

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 2017-12-15 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-005

P. Craig

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From the Years of the Convention to the Years of Brexit. Where Do We Go from Here? 从公约的年代到英国脱欧的年代。我们将何去何从?

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.CH-002

G. Amato

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The European Constitution and Europe’s Dialectical Federalism 欧洲宪法与欧洲辩证联邦制

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-006

Erin F. Delaney

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The Competence Catalogue in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon: Improvement, but at a Cost 《建立宪法条约》和《里斯本条约》的权限目录:改进，但要付出代价

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.CH-008

S. Weatherill

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Europe’s Constitutional Overture 欧洲宪法提案

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-011

Neil Walker

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Constitutionalisation without Constitution: A Democracy Problem 没有宪法的宪法化:一个民主问题

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-003

D. Grimm

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The EU Constitution, Sovereignty and the Problem of Primacy 欧盟宪法、主权与首要问题

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-010

G. Beck

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The European Constitution and ‘the Compulsion to Grand Politics’ 欧洲宪法与“大政治的强制”

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-012

R. Mullender

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The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU’s Shallow Constitutionalism 《基本权利宪章》与欧盟的浅薄宪政

The Rise and Fall of the European Constitution Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.5040/9781509910977.ch-009

Dorota Leczykiewicz

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