Download or read book Divided Sovereignty, Nation and Legal Community written by Klaus Günther and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a view to EU democracy, Jürgen Habermas introduced the idea that the relationship between the roles of state citizens and European citizens should be understood as a form of 'divided sovereignty'. This notion is a constructive solution to theoretical problems resulting from the goal of realizing national and European democracy at the same time, but one might suspect that one of the suggested roles comes more naturally to most citizens. While state citizenship can draw on national identities, EU citizenship appears artificial and constructed, and hence not very attractive. I argue that the contraposition of 'natural' vs. 'artificial' sovereigns is inadequate. Both parts of divided sovereignty need to be understood in a constructivist sense as they are attributed to legal associations. Much in the same way as the idea of national sovereignty had to be appropriated in learning processes, citizens could grow into the role of EU sovereigns. 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: ), Citizen and State Equality in a Supranational Political Community: Degressive Proportionality and the Pouvoir Constituant Mixte by Jürgen Habermas (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: ) and The Levelling Up of Constituent Power in the European Union by Markus Patberg (DOI: ).