Coursework.Info - Inspiration in an Instant

On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:

2nd B.C.L. EU Law Essay Question No. 2 Keith Ó Connachtáin 20/03/02 Student No.: 99461323 A genuine and effective constitution is both the basic and the highest law in any legal system. It regulates the basic social and political relations in the system, limits the exercise of sovereign power, and, most importantly, protects the society and its citizens from intrusive exercise of power by the sovereign power of the State. The constitutional law of the European Community can be said to be based upon three criteria: (1) the constitutional nature of the Treaties; (2) the constitutional role of the European Court of Justice; and (3) the concept of exchange of sovereignty from the Member States to the Community in the areas within its competence.1 The Treaties set down the basic constitutional limits/restraints, which the European Court of Justice interprets and gives effect to, much like the highest court in any of the Member States, and these...

To see the full version of this document, and 145,320 others