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Comparative and Foreign Law

Duke Law

2002

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Protecting Member State Autonomy In The European Union: Some Cautionary Tales From American Federalism, Ernest A. Young Jan 2002

Protecting Member State Autonomy In The European Union: Some Cautionary Tales From American Federalism, Ernest A. Young

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The European Union's ongoing "Convention on the Future of Europe" must tackle a fundamental issue of federalism: the balance between central authority and Member State autonomy. In this article, Ernest Young explores two strategies for protecting federalism in America - imposing substantive limits on central power and relying on political and procedural safeguards - and considers their prospects in Europe. American experience suggests that European attempts to limit central power by enumerating substantive "competencies" for Union institutions are unlikely to hold up, and that other substantive strategies such as the concept of "subsidiarity" tend to work best as political imperatives …


Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes, Donald L. Horowitz Jan 2002

Constitutional Design: Proposals Versus Processes, Donald L. Horowitz

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