Are fring elements in Northern Africa trying to apply for membership into the EU or not?
But the central constitutional question facing the EU would be instantly recognisable to a Madison or a Hamilton: how much power should individual states retain, and how much should be handed over to a central, federal authority?
...the original arrangement of which resulted, 80 years later, in a war to settle different interpretations of that very issue. And that was between people with a common language and pretty much a common cultural heritage, at least by comparison to the members of the EU. This is not a light matter.
While the delegates did indeed have a sense of an American Nation--a concept of a new shared ethnicity, born in struggle--as well as their respective State identities--they were not forging a single nation. They were creating a Federal Government, with limited functions, intended to serve those interests that they had in common. The EU, by intruding into such outlandish things as relations between the sexes, and how the sexually normal treat asexuals, as well as dictating ethnic relations and attitudes, has already gone beyond what the Founding Fathers entrusted to the new Federal Union. While it did provide for uniform laws on immigration and naturalization, it left up to the States, communities and individuals, how they would view each other.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
We are not America.
Here's the European Constitution:
You vill do as you are told! Obedience to the state is paramount. Everything not prohibited is mandatory...this for the greater good of course.
Should read ...constipational convention