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| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
What's so hard?
Create an EU Congress built on two houses: The higher house, lets call it the "Senate" will afford all nations equal repersentation and each nation will have two senators on rotating terms of 6 years.
The lower house, lets call it the "house of repersentatives" will be derived via the population of the EU. Therefore if the UK has more people then Luxenberg it will have more repersentatives. Limit the amount of EU repersentatives to 500. An area will be defined as a repersentative jurisdiction according to a population that is 1/500 the population of the EU.
Next create an executive office, have the executive office in responsibility of executiving all legislation the EU Congress passes. Allow the executive, lets call him the "president" to be elected by the EU Congress initially, later on as the EU mature you can transition this to a direct-style election.
Third, create a judiciary to make sure that neither congress nor the executive transgress their bounds. You want a high court that can be the final word for all the nations of the EU on matters of Union interest. Lets call this high court of all the land the "supreme court". Make sure judges are appointed for life so no corruption can come in, but also allow their selection via congress and the president to make sure you ensure a balance of powers. Have these judges interpert the EU constitutional law and all federal law in cases that can not be settled in lower courts.
Fourth, protect the people from government. The people are the reason for the governments existance, they give away their freedoms (voluntarily) so it may serve to the benifit of all. However, they do not agree to give up all their freedoms and as such it is imperative that they are protected against the government in case it becomes tyranical and over-burdensome. A statement of the rights that a citizen always has is imperative to protect the people, a portion of the constitution should contain this part, lets call this part the "bill of rights".
Lastly, empower the legislature - give them all (or as little) power as you like. Whether it is the power to tax, the power to have foreign policy (and banning all EU nations of it), the power to coin money, the power to determine interstate trade, the power to raise a military, etc. This is where the EU can really decide how big the scope of the legislature (and hence the EU) will be. If the power isn't specifically given to Congress in the constitution then the congress can not do it.
So if you want the EU to be a rough collectivist entity give the EU the ability to finance itself (either by taxing people directly or the nations), the ability to raise a army (whether banning national armies or not), the ability to be the final arbitrator for any nation to nation dispute,t give the EU the opprotunity to do only foriegn policy that is trade related, and allow it to control the borders. Leave the rest for the nations to decide how they would like to run themselves, whether it is to have euthenasia, whether they do want to give their children's rights, whether they do want people to have free access to a placement agency (wtf??) etc.
And there you have it... your EU constitution. In probably less then 30 pages no doubt too (a tenth its current size). |
well i would agree that a federal europe would be the best, by far. Perhaps not exactly the way you described it, but something similar. And if you ever followed the dabate prior to the draft of the constitution, you would know that original idea was a federal EU. However that idea was strongly protested by many countries and citizens, and the idea was discountinued.
I think the main reason for the constitution for beeing so long is that it consist of so much else, for example all the trade deals and so on, kinda like the nafta treaty would be included in your constitution. Also since its not a federal system, very much must be agreed upon how things should be govern, exactly how much powers the EU has. If this wasnt the case, it would be very hard to implement a treaty in the EU since the countries are very keen of their soverginity. In the US the powers arent as defined, and you can clearly see that the federal government is taking over more and more that they werent intended to do at first.
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and it doesnt fit the needs/wants of either the ppl, nor the political elite in europe.
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