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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The failure of the EU constituent countries to even come close to voting in favor of a Constitution was its death knell. It's only going to get worse from here.
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I just read in the economist today that Finland became the sixteenth country to rafity the EU constitution (out of twenty five). So far just France and the Netherlands haven't ratified. It looks like six of the other seven left are gong to ratify. That will put a little pressure on the Netherlands and France.
Didn't some states turn down the US constitution? The US constitution allowed for some supermajority instead of unanimous consent for the Constitution to become the law of the land (and superceding the Articles of Confederation), when the controlling legal authority of the time, the Articles of Confederation, called for unanimous consent for any amendments or changes to those articles. Maybe they will pull some such legal trickery in Europe to get in their constitution?
