Argument n°2:
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A Constitution should be READABLE.
This one is not. Objectively. Read any other Constitution that you can get a hand on, the Constitution of the United States of America, the French Constitution of 1793, the bolshevik Constitution of the USSR, the Constitution of your own state, any one you want, it's contained in a reasonable number of pages - generally between ten and twenty -, it's understandable by virtually anybody, it's clear and simple.
This one is that unbearable that I couldn't even finish it !
On the
PDF file that I downloaded from the official site, it does in fact... 250 pages (Legal/A4), and still, without preambles nor annexes. The total text, does FOUR HUNDRED FUCKING EIGHTY FIVE PAGES. It is the Longest Constitution in the World. It would deserve an entry on the Guiness Book of Records.
I know some will say : this length was necessary, it is the reflect of the complexity of the Union, it was impossible to do shorter, we already struggled hard to find consensuses, etc. etc. Stop right here, buddy. For a CONSTITUTION, that should say what are the powers and the counter-powers inside the European Union (and that should say ONLY that), one couldn't do shorter ? Pathetic. Take any 16-year old student, explain him how Europe works and tell him to sum it up in his next paper and you'll get a Constitution in fifteen pages, very acceptable.
And in any way, if that Constitution had been written by a Constituent, we should NEVER have needed to aim for such consensuses between states. The ONLY FACT that this question was risen reveals by whom and especially FOR WHOM this Constitution has been written. Obviously, not for the citizens.
Such a long text, what does it imply ?
It implies that nobody wants to bother reading it.
How then complain about the lack of any debate ? Howdya want to emit critics on a text if you don't have read it ? And even stronger, howdya want to emit the single critic on a text when you've understood nothing ??
This constitution is not criticizeable... BECAUSE it is not readable. If you see so few ministers and politicians from the left wing or from the right wing criticize openly, in good or in bad, this project of Constitution, it is quite simply because most of them... DIDN'T EVEN READ IT.
When you sign a contract, you gotta READ to UNDERSTAND what you sign. Or else, do not sign at all.