On 6/1/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 31, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Dave Land wrote: > > > On May 31, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > > >> Yeah. What I've been missing in the flurry of coverage is the actual > >> constitution itself. Anyone have a link handy to the text of the > >> document? > > > > http://europa.eu.int/constitution/index_en.htm > > > > Available in 21 languages. > > And overwrought in each. Yikes. When your constitution *starts* with > codification of a flag, an anthem, a motto, a currency and a "union > day" definition, you've become FAR too bogged down in details.
The Constitution was a mess and should have been voted down - everything was in that thing. Long, complicated, cumbersome,and complex is not what you want in a Constitution. Check out all the protocols: http://europa.eu.int/constitution/en/allinone_en.htm Here is a tiny bit of one: > 11. The business plan for the benefiting company V�lcovny Plechu Fr�dek > M�stek (VPFM) shall be implemented. In particular: > > (a) Hot Rolling Mills Nos 1 and 2 shall be permanently closed at the end > of 2004; > > (b) restructuring efforts shall concentrate on the following: > > (i) making the necessary investment in order to reach a higher quality of > finished product in the short term after the signing of the Treaty of > Accession, > > (ii) giving priority to the implementation of key identified profit > improvement opportunities (including employment restructuring, cost > reductions, yield improvements and distribution reorientation). > It is also interesting French liberals rejected it for being too conservative and tied to big business after nearly all the media and over 80% of the politicians supported it. -- Gary Denton Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
