Globalization and Sovereignty. Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy and Constitutionalism

摘要

The burden of the Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) weighs heavily on experts in public law and political science. The seventeenth-century debates on the forma imperii, the place of sovereignty in the German realm, and on the nature of the relations of the almost 300 imperial estates were conducted in the genre of conceptual architectonic that bears an uncanny resemblance to present European (or European-inspired) wrangling around the effects of "globalization" on "sovereignty" and on the way the world is ruled.