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Transatlantic constitutionalism: Comparing the United States and the European Union
Author(s) -
FABBRINI SERGIO
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2004.00165.x
Subject(s) - constitutionalism , european union , constitution , political science , european integration , member states , order (exchange) , government (linguistics) , law , international trade , economics , democracy , politics , linguistics , philosophy , finance
. This article contributes to the European constitutional debate with a comparison of the constitutional evolution of the European Union and the United States. The European Union has more to learn from the American experience of constitutionalism than from any of its own Member States. Like the United States, the European Union will have a frame of government constitution that will try to order a system of multiple and concurrent communities of interests, as happened in America, and designed by an indirectly elected assembly. The European Union and the United States will continue to manifest many differences in other crucial aspects of their institutional and cultural development. However, although constrained by their respective historical and institutional paths, their constitutional evolution is making the Atlantic Ocean less wide than it used to be.