EU History - Federalist Documents
In January 2002 I had to give a lecture on the origins of European federalism. I relied very heavily (though not exclusively) for this on the first chapter on Michael Burgess’ book Federalism and European Union: The Building of Europe, 1950-2000 (London/New York, 2000). When I delved a little deeper through the internet, I was delighted to find many of the documents cited there available on-line in full text.
- 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)
And some further reading:
- 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 Design” Rechtstheorie, 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)