1. See, Cappelletti & Golay , supra note 71, at 333.
2. J.H.H Wailer, Federalism and Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg, 13 Harvard Jean Monnet Paper (10-2000). He explains the meaning of the principle of the Principle of Tolerance in the usual brilliant way: “constitutional actors in the Member States accept the European Constitutional discipline not because as a matter of legal doctrine…. They accept it as a it as a an autonomous voluntary act…. The Quebecois are told in the name of the people of Canada, you are obliged to obey. The French or the Italians or the Germans are told: in the name of peoples of Europe, you are invited to obey…. When acceptance and subordination is voluntary, it constitutes an act of true liberty and emancipation from collective self-arrogance and constitutional fetishism: a high expression of Constitutional Tolerance”
3. See, Rinze J. , The Role of the European Court of Justice as a Federal Constitutional Court, 5 E. P. L. 426 (1993); W. Van Gerven, Towards a Coherent Constitutional System within The European Union, E. P. L. 81 1996; Jacobs F.G. , Is the Court of Justice of the European Communities a Constitutional Court, in Constitutional Adjudication in European Community and National Law, Essays for the Hon. Mr Justice O'Higgins T.F. 25 (D. O’ Keeffe & Curtin D. eds., Ireland 1992); A. Donner, The Constitutional Powers of the European Court of Justice of the European Communities, 127 Common Market L. Rev 14 (1974).
4. See McInnes J. , Case Note on Case C-249, Lisa Jacqueline Grant v. South West Trains Ltd, 36 Common Market L. Rev. 1054 (1999).
5. Cappelletti & Golay , supra note 71, at 327, emphasis added.