Comparing Constitutions
Comparing the American and European Constitutions. From Pytheas Online:
In today's UK Telegraph, Charlie Moore explains the differences between the US Constitution and the proposed constitution for the European Union: It is natural for Americans to like the sound of the word "constitution". They have the best one ever written in a single document. It consists, in the copy I have before me, of 12 pages, 11 if you exclude the list of the men who signed it. There are also amendments added over the past two centuries: they amount to another nine pages. If President Bush tucked himself up with it at his famously early bedtime of 9.30, he could finish it well before 10. The proposed EU constitution, on the other hand, runs 511 pages in length. It reads more as a commercial contract than as an outline for federalism.
European Constitution - from Wired Temples
posted by Robert Micallef at 2/22/2005 04:02:00 PM
An American friend told me last week that when he was lecturing his students on the process and passage of the Constitution and the differences between the US and the EU Constitution he would quote the first few words of both documents.
The US Constitution starts "We the people..."
The EU Consitution starts "His Majesty King Albert ofthe Belgians..."
If George Bush can read the whole American constitution in 30 minutes, I wonder how much it would take someone who has even a limited IQ, i.e. slightly better than the American president's....
521 pages ..wooooooow scary , thanks for the info , never knew that
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