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...Weiler divided the history of the community into three periods. He said the "foundational period," from the organization's inception to the early 1970s, was marked by the creation of a "quasi-federal constitutional structure" in the community. This structure, he said, was largely the result of many rulings by the community's supreme court, which enshrined in law doctrines such as the supremacy of community law and certain human rights standards...
...These are all structures of a classical federal system," said Weiler...
...political crisis had left the community states concerned over their sovereignty. During that crisis, the community had adopted a consensus form of decision making, which gave states a "de facto veto" over community policy, said Weiler...
...Weiler said that more changes came during the second period, from the early '70s until the mid '80s. During this time, more states accepted the notion that the community's powers extend beyond those spelled out in the original charter. As a result, he said, authority was slowly transferred from the states to the community...
...single most important constitutional development was the total collapse of idea of enumerated powers," Weiler said. "In the '70s constitutional guarantees of limitation on competencies of community disappeared into thin...