EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL LAW Death by Constitution? The Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe
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However, if this were its only drawback, this brief comment would be unnecessary. But, in fact, the Draft constitution (we will use this term as a convenient shorthand and so as to underline the sense of alienation that oozes from the use of the term constitution, although it would be better to speak of a draft treaty) raises issues on a number of rather fundamental points. Its main characteristic, we will argue, is a soaring ambivalence on the two points that really matter: What to do with the Union? And what to do with Europe's citizens?
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