From empire to union : conceptions of German constitutional law since 1871 / Jo Eric Khushal Murkens.
2013
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Author
Title
From empire to union : conceptions of German constitutional law since 1871 / Jo Eric Khushal Murkens.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Call Number
KK4450 .M87 2013
Former Call Number
Ger 910 M94 2013
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199671885 (hbk.)
0199671885 (hbk.)
0199671885 (hbk.)
Description
ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)810946934
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-254) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
pt. I
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AS A DISCIPLINE
1.
The Emergence of Constitutional Law as a Positive Discipline
9
I.
Georg jellinek (1851-1911)
18
II.
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973)
21
1.
The state
26
2.
Sovereignty
29
3.
Constitution
30
4.
The foundation of the constitution
31
III.
Conclusion
32
2.
The Rejection of Constitutional Law as a Positive Discipline
37
I.
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
40
1.
The state
41
2.
Constitution
45
3.
The foundation of the constitution
47
4.
Sovereignty
50
5.
Critical assessment
52
II.
Rudolf Smend (1882-1975)
55
1.
The state
56
2.
Constitution
58
3.
Critical assessment
60
III.
Conclusion
63
pt. II
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AS A METHOD
3.
Staatsrecht and Verfassungsrecht
69
I.
Internal Interpretations of the Constitution
69
1.
Staatsrecht
73
a.
The state as organized power distinguished from society
74
b.
The state exists prior to the constitution
76
c.
The constitution as a framework order
79
d.
Critical assessment
80
e.
Conclusion
83
2.
Verfassungsrecht
85
a.
The state fulfils a social function for the political community
87
b.
The law and constitution replace the theory of the state
90
c.
The constitution is the basic legal order of the entire political community with a comprehensively guiding function
91
II.
Conclusion
95
4.
External Application to the European Union
99
I.
Staatsrecht
102
1.
Statehood as a limit to integration
104
2.
Representation and the role of the people
106
3.
The social glue
108
4.
Critical assessment
110
II.
Ius Publicum Europaeum
112
1.
The principle of open statehood
117
2.
The post-national constellation
120
3.
The social glue
124
4.
Critical assessment
128
pt. III
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AS POLITICAL JURISPRUDENCE
5.
Sovereignty and Continuity
137
I.
A Short History of Sovereignty
137
1.
Legal doctrine
137
2.
Scholarship
140
3.
Politics
142
II.
The Genesis of the Basic Law
146
III.
The Continuity of the State
149
6.
The Interpretation of the Basic Law by the Federal Constitutional Court
153
I.
Dethroning Constitutional Scholars
153
II.
Article 24 GG
157
III.
Solange I(1974) and Solange II(1986)
160
IV.
Constitutional Amendment in 1992
165
V.
Article 23 GG
168
VI.
Article 146 GG and the `suprema potestas' of the Court
171
VII.
The Federal Constitutional Court as Final Arbiter
175
7.
The Structure of the Federal Constitutional Court's Decisions in Maastricht and Lisbon
178
I.
Ratio decidendi
178
II.
Article 38 GG
181
1.
First ideological obstacle: Staatenverbund
183
2.
Second ideological obstacle: Sovereignty
188
3.
Third ideological obstacle: Democracy
194
a.
The domestic concept
194
b.
The European democracy deficit
199
4.
Fourth ideological obstacle: Identity
203
III.
Conclusion
207
Conclusion
209
Appendix: Excerpts from the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
213
Bibliography
218
Index of Names
255
Index of Subjects
260