Federalism and European Union

 The Building of Europe

 

J. Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth (1576, translation 1955)
T. Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) 
J. Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690) 
C. de Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws (1748, translation 1752) 
J.J. Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762, translation) 
J. Althusius, Politica Methodice Digesta (1603, translation) 
The Constitution of the United States 
The Federalist Papers 
The Anti-Federalist papers 
P-J. Proudhon Du principe fédértif (1863, extract) 
P-J. Proudhon Du principe fédértif (1863, complete… in Italian) 
Rerum Novarum (1891) 
Quadragesimo Anno (1931) 
Briand Memorandum (May 1930) 
Phillip Kerr (Lord Lothian) Pacifism is not Enough (1935) 
Phillip Kerr (Lord Lothian) The Ending of Armageddon (1939) 
E. Rossi en A. Spinelli, Il manifesto Ventone (1941) 
E. Rossi en A. Spinelli, Il manifesto Ventone (1941, translation) 
Den Haag Congres (1948, documentation) 
Statute of the Council of Europe (1949)
 
A. Bosco, “What is federalism? Towards a general theory of federalism: the theory, the history and its application to European Unification” South Bank European papers 1/96 91996) 
D.J. Eltzar, “Althusius and Federalism as Grand DesignRechtstheorie, Vol. 14, Beiheft 16 (1997) 
T. Heuglin, “Federalism, subsidiarity and the European Tradition” Paper presented to 2nd ECSA Conference, Federlaism, Subsidiarity and Democracy in the European Union, Brussel, May 1994 

S. Woodward, “The Simple Guide to the Federal Idea” in Ventone, federalism and Politics (1995)