Download or read book Citizen and State Equality in a Supranational Political Community written by Jürgen Habermas and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the European Parliament seats are distributed according to a principle of degressive proportionality that privileges smaller member states. While serving the principle of state equality, this arrangement seems to violate the principle of citizen equality. In this article, I consider whether a deviation from the equal representation of citizens can be justified in the context of a supranational political community. The main thesis is that the conflict between citizen and state equality can be dissolved if we understand the European Union as based on a pouvoir constituant mixte. Today, each European finds herself in a dual role as an EU citizen and a state citizen. While the member state peoples strive for supranational democracy, they have an interest in preserving their domestic structures of self-government. Thus, the rules of representation in the EP can be reconstructed as an expression of the legitimate will of a dual constituent subject. This article is part of the March 2017 Symposium titled 'The EU's Pouvoir Constituant Mixte', which also includes The EU's Pouvoir Constituant Mixte - Exploring the Systematic Potential of an Innovative Category by Markus Patberg (DOI: ), The 'Mixed' Constituent Legitimacy of the European Federation by Peter Niesen (DOI: ), The European Parliament as a Forum of National Interest? A Transnationalist Critique of Jürgen Habermas' Reconstruction of Degressive Proportionality by Jelena von Achenbach (DOI: ), The Levelling Up of Constituent Power in the European Union by Markus Patberg (DOI: ) and Divided Sovereignty, Nation and Legal Community by Klaus Günther (DOI: ).