Download or read book Constituent Power in the European Union written by Markus Patberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to develop a new approach to EU legitimacy by reformulating the classical notion of constituent power for the context of European integration and challenging the conventional theoretical assumptions regarding the EU's ultimate source of authority.