@article{2015:razzolini:constituti,
title = {Constitutionalization of Socio-Economic Rights at the EU Level: Some Critical Notes},
year = {2015},
note = {Frank I. Michelman raises four questions concerning the opportunity to
include socio-economic rights in a country’s constitutional law. The
first is a question of ideal political morality and an aspiration of
justice in modern pluralist conditions. The second explores whether a
commitment to socio-economic rights in constitutional law is a
condition of minimum moral legitimacy that otherwise allows a state
regime to require compliance by citizens with its statutory laws and
policies. The third question concerns the need for a constitutional
basis for socio-economic rights or legitimation-by-constitution.
Finally, the fourth is a question of “judicialization”, involving
the competence of the country’s courts of law to scrutinize “the
adequacy of the state’s performance in the field of social
provisioning” and, in a broader sense, the legitimacy and adequacy
of the state’s economic policy, which scrutiny is usually deemed
impossible in the United States.},
journal = {KritV Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft},
pages = {284--302},
author = {Razzolini, Orsola},
volume = {98},
number = {3}
}