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Constitutional Patriotism or Neo-republican Citizenship: A Way Forward for the EU?

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Constituting Communities

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The recent difficulties to establish a Constitution for Europe2 highlight several critical issues facing the member states of the European Union and, importantly, their respective citizens. These endeavours to clarify and codify the rights and duties of EU citizens in the proposed CT seem, among other things, to signal a move towards a richer and more robust notion of citizenship and its relation to the larger political community. Curiously, a document that is meant, among other things, to enhance the democratic nature of the Union has failed to be endorsed democratically by its citizens.3 Putting aside these difficulties, the main purpose of this chapter is to focus on a group of theorists who believe that the Constitutional process signals a decisive shift towards a post-national political community with a rich cosmopolitan conception of citizenship.

Originally presented to ‘Constituting Communities — Political Solutions to Cultural Differences in Europe’, convened by the Danish Research Group on Cultural Encounters, University of Copenhagen, 23–25 October 2003. I would like to thank the participants of that conference and the editors of this volume for their helpful critique. I would like to thank the Faculty Research and Creative Activity Committee of Middle Tennessee State University for their generous support in helping me complete this project.

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    Per Mouritsen (Associate Professor of Political Science) & Knud Erik Jørgensen (Professor of European Integration) (Associate Professor of Political Science) &  (Professor of European Integration)

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Maynor, J. (2008). Constitutional Patriotism or Neo-republican Citizenship: A Way Forward for the EU?. In: Mouritsen, P., Jørgensen, K.E. (eds) Constituting Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582088_9

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