These complex texts make the case for a single, coherent constitution for the EU.
First, if the UK has managed for so long without a single written constitution why can't the EU?
This must in part result from a shift in power from local to national government, a perverse consequence of a "single state" constitution.
In the absence of a single written constitution, many of the answers to these questions lie in the interpretation of case law, some of it going back centuries.
But "even if something is legal in the U.K., it can be unconstitutional in India," Mr. Prakash argued, because constitutional protection for speech in India is better than in Britain, which does not have a single, codified constitution.
Having secured the accession of the princely states, the Government of India between 1948 and 1950 turned to the task of welding the states and the former British provinces into one polity under a single republican constitution.
Rather than a single document (the constitution) superseding previous EU treaties, the new document is a collection of legal protocols and amendments to the earlier treaties.
It is what is possible when Britain is true to its principles, something never written down in a single document or constitution but which beats strong in the hearts of so many - a sense of fair play.
THE new EU constitution: Consolidates all European treaties into a single document labelled a constitution for the European Union.
