Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter I Taking Citizens Seriously. Questioning the Time Modes of Legal Enterprise -- 1.Introduction to the Problematics -- 2.Context of Investigations -- 3. The First Road: Dworkin's Monological Meta-Construction of the Present -- 4. The Second Road: Habermas's Discursive Reorientation Towards the Future-Oriented Project -- 5. The Third Road: MacCormick's Present Perfect of the Interpretative Cooperation -- 6. At the Crossroads or Polemical Signposts -- a) The Legitimation of Law -- b) The Source of Law -- c) The Law-Making -- 7. Where the All Roads Lead -- Chapter II The Idea of Self-Constitutionalisation and Constitutional Patriotism -- 1. The Background of Reading the Idea of Constitutional Patriotism -- 2. Constitutional Patriotism-the Outline of Approaches -- 3. Basic Premises of the Idea of Constitutional Patriotism -- 4. Constitutional Patriotism-the Boat Metaphor and its Readings -- 5. A Further Explication of the Three Time Modes of the Constitutional Interpretation -- A) The Role of the Future -- B) The Role of the Past and Ethical Self-Understanding -- C) An Explication of the Present -- Chapter III The Ethical Fibre of Constitutional Patriotism and Horizontal Constitutionalisation -- I.Questioning Values in Habermas -- 2. Values and Interests -- 3. Values and Norms -- 4.Value Enhancement and the Concept of Authenticity -- 5. The Political Turn Towards Culture -- Chapter IV Institutional Intersections or Contractarianism by Habermas -- 1. A short Outline of the Basic Ideas that Characterise Contractarian Theories -- 2.Habermas's Transformations of the Contractarian Paradigm -- A) Conditions that Enable the Entrance into the Social Contract -- B) Hypothetical (pre-political or pre-social) State of Nature -- C) Social Contract-a Process Not an Act.

Chapter V What is the Prescription for the EU? -- 1. Kantian Ius Cosmopoliticum or European Self-Constitutionalisation? -- 2. Internal Dimension of the EU's Constitutionalisation -- 3. External Dimension of the EU's Constitutionalisation -- References.