The Levelling Up of Constituent Power in the European Union
本文提出制宪权升级的概念，认为国家层面的制宪权可授权超国家层面的宪法决策，从而形成新的制宪权，为分析欧盟制宪权及其与成员国人民的关系提供框架。
Abstract In this article, I elaborate a conceptual innovation that underlies, if only in nascent form, Jürgen Habermas's notion of pouvoir constituant mixte and could significantly advance research on the democratic legitimacy of EU constitutional politics: the levelling up of constituent power. According to this idea, state‐level pouvoirs constituants may issue an authorization for constitutional decision‐making at the supra‐state level and thereby bring about a new constituent power whose composition can take a variety of forms. This conceptual framework paves the way for a systematic analysis of the EU's pouvoir constituant and its relation to the demoi of the member states. At the same time, it renders it an open normative question of who should be in charge of EU constitutional politics.