Direct individual access to the European Court of Justice bypassed national sovereignty.

Evidence

The vertical ­legal relationship created from the individual to the Eu­ro­pean Court of Justice created an ave­nue to elude deviant exercises of national sovereignty and secure the ­human right to trade. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 692

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the constitutionalist mechanism: vertical legal relationship linking individual directly to supranational court.
• XREF: connects to: The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty; The EU adopts market language to bypass member-state sovereignty constraints. — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 106; The European Court of Justice allowed religious-symbol bans only if applied generally — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 458

Broader Connections

• The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty #responds-to (0.85)
• The EU adopts market language to bypass member-state sovereignty constraints. #complicates (0.78) — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 106
• The European Court of Justice allowed religious-symbol bans only if applied generally #qualifies (0.75) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 458