EU member state status - Member statehood - The idea of an "Integrated State" - Impact of EU membership on the concepts and substance of national constitutional law - Europeanization of member state's constitutional law - European constitutional law understood as Europeanized national constitutional law - European functions of constitutional organs - How to protect fundamental rights in a European area characterized by the overlaying of legal sources - The concept of "higher law" within the national legal order - A Union of Constitutionally Integrated States