Abstract
This article attempts to discover the key elements of the democratic principle, as described by
the judges sitting in Luxembourg and Strasbourg, whose case law reveals the underlying idea
of democracy at the supranational level. Until recently the debate on democracy was limited
to the national level. But things are changing, and this article shows the gradual emergence
of a process led by supranational courts, in which the application of the democratic principle
finds multiple grades and variations. In this way the supranational/international courts
have opened a new chapter in the process of constitutionalization of international law.
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