1. Habermas , supra note 19, 8, (footnote omitted), citing Fossum John Erik , Constitution-making in the EU, in Democracy in the EU – Integration through Deliberation?, 111 (Erik Oddvar Eriksen and John Erik Fossum eds., 2000).
2. See Nanz's definition of law, adopted here, as “a normative discourse in which competing claims are contested”: Nanz Patrizia , Democratic Legitimacy and Constitutionalisation of Transnational Trade Governance: A View from Political Theory, in Constitutionalism, Multi-level Trade Governance and Social Regulation, 59 (Christian Joerges & Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann eds., 2006).
3. Anderson , supra note 138, 31 (footnote omitted) denotes a “procedural account of democracy, best actualized through the participation of formal equals in popular elections.”
4. Consider, for example, the “good governance” narrative of the rule of law as market liberalization, discussed in Bevir & Rhodes, supra note 5.
5. See Fossum & Eriksen , supra note 1, 8.