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2005-06-15 Europe

Terrible Mistake To Let The Peasants Read The Constitution Before Voting On It

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-15 18:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When the guy who wrote your constitution says, "It is not possible for anyone to understand the full text", rest assured that you did the right thing by rejecting it. That the EUrocrats would try to foist off this incoherent monstrosity on the people in the first place is a measure of the disdain the ruling class holds towards those that pay there salaries.

Posted by Scott R">Scott R 2005-06-15 19:37|| http://five24.net]">[http://five24.net] 2005-06-15 19:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Open governement is a fine idea. I don't know that sending a hardcopy of the tome to every voter is the way to go. Is that what Chiraq really did?

Posted by Super Hose 2005-06-15 21:10|| 2005-06-15 21:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, and they took one look and about threw up. The biggest problem is that it is Roman Law based, instead of Common Law based, like the US Constitution. In Roman Law, unless something is specifically authorized by law, it is forbidden. This means that their constitution was written to entail ALL laws, past, present and future. They had perhaps some idea that their constitution would become their statutes--an insane idea that makes their founding document full of nothing but trivial bureaucratic rules, while ignoring the broad, grand philosophical ideas. Now compare this to the US, where, if something is not specifically *forbidden* by law, then it is automatically legal. It severely limits what the government is *allowed* to do, not the people, and even that, it says it in broad terms. Then it *doubly* gets philosophical with the Bill of Rights, essentially saying, "Not only is the government forbidden from doing this, it is doubly forbidden, specifically forbidden, to infringe on these rights." And this is why the US Constitution is dynamite, and the EU Constitution is bureaucratic pablum. Intellectual strained beets. It all boils down to a simple question: Do the people rule the government, or does the government rule the people?

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-15 21:57|| 2005-06-15 21:57|| Front Page Top

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