Requejo, Ferran, 1951-Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i SocialsUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Grup de Recerca en Teoria Política2012-07-112012-07-112009-11-09http://hdl.handle.net/10230/5181This paper links different political liberal theories, considered from the perspective of their moral ontology, with federal democracies. After giving a brief description of these theories, I discuss their relationship with the theoretical and institutional models of federalism. As methodological tools, the paper introduces some Hegel’s political concepts and deals with their potential application to the analysis of federalism, taken into account the case of minorities in multinational democracies. I postulate the need for a moral and institutional refinement of liberal-democratic patterns that is better able to accommodate national pluralism than has so far been achieved by traditional constitutionalism.38 p.366038 bytesapplication/pdfengFederalismeLiberalismeDemocràciainfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper