After the end of an epoch in which it was enough for revolutions to claim legitimacy and after a state-based legality has been put at the center of revolutionary changes, there arises the question of whether it is possible to conceive of a worldwide legal revolutionary process outside the limits of the national states. Using his criteria for defining the political - the ability to identify one's enemies and to act accordingly - Schmitt argues that the national state cannot be replaced by a world unity (u humanity does not have enemies on this planet") and that the examination of the constitutional obstacles against the transfer of legal power from a political group to another raises to question of against whom they have been erected.