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Originally Posted by Exilibur
What influence do you think the constitution, flawed as it might be, will have on europe in the future?
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We'd be in a strait jacket. For years. No way to change a iota from the
policies dicted in the Constitution. This alone would be sufficient to vote no.
You gotta be honest, there's a big difference between the way the American Constitution has been written by Washington and his lads and this one. The American Constitution created new institutions (or for the least validated the creation of ones that were just in place) that have been laid to work in a kinda democratic manner. This one validates the function of ones that exist for decades, that were
not supposed to be democratic at all. Let's not forget that Europe was initially an ECONOMIC community, and that their institutions were merely representations of the governments in place.
The Europe we have now is an Europe for politicians and bankers, but
it is not a democracy and has never been!
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To add something else. Notice how all the great humanist ideas in part I and II are systematically voided by this clause:
These articles apply without prejudice of the dispositions taken in part III of the present treaty.
Enough said I guess.