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The Social State Based on the Rule of Law in the Europe of Rights

Ernesto Jaime Vidal Gil

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Due processPublic lawInternational human rights lawLawPolitical scienceSubsidiaritymedia_common.cataloged_instanceEuropean unionConstitutional lawSources of lawSolidaritymedia_common

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Chapter 8 shows how the idea of the social State under the rule of law has been linked to the European Union since its inception. The founding fathers (Adenaeur, de Gasperi, Monet, Schuman) set the principles of dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity as a way of freeing European citizens from fear, misery and misfortune. Welfare is, above all, a state of justice that defines the threshold between indecency and well-being and affirms that human development is not (only) economic growth. Jacques Maritain, whose influence on the European Union is well known, proclaimed the order that contains the three principles of the social state: the primacy of the person, the priority of civil society and the subsidiarity of the state. This is the great goal that the European Union must face today to fulfil the Millenium Objectives, reduce poverty and achieve human development, social well-being, justice and peace.

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2012-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4020-4_8