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The European Coal and Steel Community: Experiment in Supranationalism

The European Coal and Steel Community: Experiment in Supranationalism

Mason, Henry L.

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EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9401700222
ISBN13: 9789401700221
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 1 1955
Pages: 153
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
The European Coal and Steel Community has been called a new structure in the marches between internal and international law. 1 To describe this new type of structure the term supra- national has found increasing usage. Supranational organs have been defined as standing midway between 'international' and federal organs. International organizations - such as the United Nations or the Council of Europe - are based on the sovereign equality of their members and non-intervention in domestic affairs; they are really at the intergovernmental level. Supra- national organs transcend international organizations in both these respects without, however, constituting a federal state. They are based not on a mere restriction, but on a transfer of [national] sovereignty, but a transfer of sovereignty in a particu- lar area only. 2 This pilot experiment in supranational organization is of twofold importance. In the first place, although operating on a regional level only, it could teach valuable lessons concerning future attempts at world organization through the functional approach. In Prof. Mitrany's words, national divisions must be overlaid with a spreading web of international activities and agencies, in which and through which the interests and life of all the nations would be gradually integrated. 3 The Coal and Steel Community could be an excellent testing ground for the develop- ment of an international community, growing from the satis- faction of common needs which people of different nations share.

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