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In previous sections concerning basic rights, I strove to take over as much convenient provisions from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as possible – for it is a basic document dedicated to human rights from which other documents (international conventions, regulations of constitutions) are derivated and provisions of which are brief, nevertheless apposite and having their validity to

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Only now I am to deal with social rights – but it means not that they are little important. On the contrary, they belong to the most important ones which the present time needs. The capitalism – though many people would deny see it in this way – got now in such phase that social rights acknowledged earlier as self-evident are more and more decreased (literally “cut”) in favour of (alleged) needs

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I am preparing the section about social rights now and doing it I have arrived at an opinion that the social thinking and activity must be one of the most important part of the project of unification of Europe; and I think the same also about an ecological endeavour. And I realized at the same time that I emphasized these two themes less than they need. Their importance is so great that they have

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Political rights belong to the group of the most important rights guaranteed by a constitution because the political rights decide about nature of the society and thus about possibility to assert all other rights. In Europe, political rights are traditionally linked together with the idea of democracy which we not only should head for but which has been fulfilled already. The opinion prevails

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Previous two posts that I had published belonged to the shorter ones and I will deal with a topic that demands more length. The topic of this brief post will be the right to free movement and residence.My suggestion has only two letters, both based on the corresponding provisions of the Universal Declaration (the article 13), however completed for the purposes of the European constitution.The

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This post about the right of assembly will be similarly short as the previous one about freedom of expression. I will less proceed from the Universal Declaration because it speaks about assembling and association only by two sentences in one article – I will therefore complete it with some other sentences created on the basis of other documents, namely of European states' constitutions.My

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The major part of the provision about freedom of expression is based on the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because it puts rather great emphasis on it, incidentally also the Chapter of Fundamental Rights takes over its words for the most part.I take over the provision of the first letter almost all from the Universal Declaration, from its article 19. It speaks about the right

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This post will be shorter, because I became aware that I had written in the opening text of this section about human rights that I would publish thirteen post on this theme, but I noticed already that I joined the first two themes together; this post will not be long but I will not join it with another one.As in the previous themes, the text of the Universal Declaration will be my basis here. It

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In a fair society, it is essential to give to its individual members certain inalienable rights. But it is equally important to guarantee that the members can really demand them, that the given rights are not only in the paper. That is the reason why to establish some rules is necessary how every member of the society can demand his rights. For courts most frequently serve to this purpose, I

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The first article dedicated directly to the constitution's text about the human rights must logically concern what has to be fulfilled in the first place – namely life and personal freedom of every individual human.Every charter of human rights has to begin with a statement that all right that itself enumerates are valid for all people without any exception. If it was not, if all human rights

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Whereas there are not any previous federalist documents that could be directly taken over in the chapters of a European federal constitution dealing with competencies of the federation (and actually, it applies also in the case of the preamble and the opening provisions), the contrary seems to be valid in the case of the section dealing with basic human rights. The Charter of Fundamental Rights

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I dedicated previous fourteen posts to the topic of relations between a European federation and its member states. But another section dedicated to basic rights labeled as chapter two should precede this section of the constitution (the section dedicated to the federation's competencies should be denoted as chapter three). I discussed the federation's competencies after the post about the

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In this post, I bring the constitutional text of the section Competencies of the European federation according to the articles of the section that I wrote in previous months. The text hereafter corresponds basically to the posts which I have written about it, I only added some words or sentences that had crossed my mind. In the article 1, I added the paragraph (b) considering that all the powers

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I have dedicated this (probably) last post about the European federation's competencies to a topic which cannot be held to be last (especially in the capitalist world of today); or as a phrase says, money not until in the first place. It is necessary to determine all the needful competencies of the federation but one asks after reading them: who will pay all of that? (Well, the citizens of the

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I started my posts about power of the European federation with the article about the international policy. But the section about powers of the federation should start with an article about common relationship between the federation and the member states or among the member states themselves.First principle that has to be determined is the principle saying whether the federation or its member

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This post will be short as, I presume, also this section in the European federal constitution will be short. It will deal with some internal matters of the federation. In the present intergovernmental European Union, everything concerning its internal structure is arranged by the international treaties concluded among its member states – the Union itself has no power to establish its own bodies

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In this short post, I will mention only several competencies of the European federation which I have omitted in the penultimate post about education and science and could to do so because they go with the sphere of science.The first of these omitted competencies concerns interventions in genetic information of living creatures and especially human. This topic is usually not in state constitutions

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The next topic that should be in the competence of the European federation to a certain extent is protection of the environment and wildlife species. I hope that “communitarity” of this topic is evident: on the present, the man is capable of interfering in the environment with such intensity that effects are far-reaching and not limited into state borders, especially because the states of Europe

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The first topic of this post will be culture. This topic may be seen inappropriate in a federal constitution of Europe. I have written something of this kind in the post about the constitution's preamble: the federation should preserve cultural diversity, it is one of main features of federal arrangement. An opinion about an inappropriateness of federal care of culture seems to be verified by

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A federation connects states, transport connects people. But it is valid also on the contrary – a federation connects people and transport connects states.Not even sovereign European states could live beside one another without effective transport, much less a European federation. Good working transport is a condition for existence of a single market in the federation but it is not its only

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The European civil war (usually called the World War) is far in the past now and so economical reason of unification is more important for the Europeans than maintaining peace in Europe. It is actually the most important reason nowadays, but important in every time and the European constitution has to pay attention to it. So far, I wrote only about free movement of persons all over the federation

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In this post I will return back to an international policy of the European federation because I have realized something yet in connection with it. It will be very probably necessary in future that a category of to the European federation associated states will be. The fact points to it that not all member states of the present EU will want to join the European federation (a realistic estimate is

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A thing that affects a bit what I wrote in previous post is a question of a citizenship. If a federation should arise in Europe, a question of federal citizenship will arise. This is a question unknown to present European unification; the Lisbon Treaty speaks about the citizenship of the European Union but the European Union is not a state and therefore this thing is actually unreasonable in the

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I tried to concentrate chiefly on the issues of the European federation's acting towards outside in previous two posts. Now (not only in this post) I will discuss the matters by which the European union will act as a uniform state towards inside.I will begin with the matter of internal borders. The borders between the member states cannot be abandoned naturally – then the member states would

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There are also other things following the provision on foreign policy that was written in the previous post. I will discuss them now.If it is said that the federation is one entity towards the outside, many consequences go out from that which need to be mentioned explicitly, I believe.The European federation will act with non-members states and will represent them because the member states will

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In this chapter the constitution will determine the relations between the Union on the one hand and the member states, that is to say competencies of the federation. Whereas my previous posts were relatively indisputable (although it is possible to quarrel on everything) many (potential) readers of this chapter can easily dissent from many (or even all) of submitted suggestions because the

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!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->Section General provisions is a section that usually stands near the beginning of constitution texts and is different from a preamble. The section contains such general informations like a name of the state, its capital, its state symbols, statements about the state's territory, a general character of the state and similarly. These

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Not every state's constitution has a preamble in the beginning. Nothing urges Europe to have any preamble in its federal constitution, but the two greatest patterns for the European federal constitution, the constitution of the United States of America and the constitution of Switzerland, begin with a preamble. A preamble is a solemn introductory statement bringing general ideas of the following

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The adoption of the constitution is the only matter discussed here that will not be explicitly written in the constitution. But it means not it is less important. The main thing that cannot be passed and that has to sound first is: the constitution has to be approved by the people in a direct vote, a plebiscite. A meaning of this is double: The first is the question of democracy - the

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What means this blog? It is clear from its title that it is something about federalism in Europe. But if you look around, you find there are many webpages and blogs dedicated to this phenomenon on the Internet. This blog wants not bring other convincing of that the people(s) of Europe need a federal union for its (their) future. Its conviction (my conviction actually :-) ) is the current way of

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