Constitution et "communauté" - fondements sociaux d'un ordre juridique

Cette étude en ligne publiée par
le Federal Trust analyse les fondements sociaux de
l’ordre constitutionnel au niveau
supra-national. 

Abstract

A constitutional order represents more than
the machinery of government and a mechanism for
entrenching rights; it provides a normative
framework, the basic values, principles and
objectives which guide the common existence of
a community of citizens. It is, however,
meaningless unless it is ‘enacted’,
transformed into social reality by the
practice of its citizens. Within the
nation-state, the fundamental values of the
constitutional order were brought into
existence through the progressive social
struggles of citizens. A common citizenship
practice emerged from the homogeneity of
national communities. A post-national
constitutional order encounters new challenges:
it must accommodate different
cultural communities and allow for the
emergence of idiosyncratic forms of citizenship
practice within these which would,
nevertheless, remain permeated by EU-wide
constitutional values.

The abstract was taken directly from
the Federal Trust’s Online Paper 18/04
written by Silvana Gliga, University of
Newcastle. 

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to read the paper.