Jürgen Habermas: "Democracy in Europe" (2014)
Holberg Prize Talks
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Constitution Building at a Higher Level
The creation of the super national democracy can not be understood on the same model of a two-stage process. A subject comes into play that now empowers itself to serve as another constituting authority. Unlike the case of the revolutionary popular swam one of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century,. This is of course not a case of safe empowerment in the strength sense.
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