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I don't know, that's not exactly what happened in Ireland with the Lisbon Treaty. When the first referendum didn't get the results "expected", they forced a sec
by dguaraglia 10y ago
I don't know, that's not exactly what happened in Ireland with the Lisbon Treaty. When the first referendum didn't get the results "expected", they forced a second referendum after much campaigning and the results were different. Democracy at work? Bureaucracy at work? Who knows.
- leot 10y agoThe 18th and 21st amendments to the US Constitution come to mind. This decision feels very much like it's on the wrong side of history, but perhaps that's just the denial.
- gonvaled 10y agoIt is not the wrong side of history. It is just that history has a penchant of breaking havoc every now and then. We'll start feeling the riples of this in a couple of years. What a huge mistake!