I just finished a new refined constitution for the EU federation what do you all think?

The nations of Europe hereby unite under this constitution to unify foreign policy and maintain economic stability, while preserving the domestic independance and culture of every nation.


Article I- Parliament

Section I-The full legislative authority belongs to the Parliament of Europe. The powers listed in this article are the only powers granted to this body to legislate. The Parliament of Europe, shall have the power to control international trade, regulate trade between member nations, regulate interstate commerce, to levy tariffs on goods and taxes on the nation states by perporton equal to population, asylum and refugee resettlement by proportion by population, carry out a census every ten years, and sole power to regulate the Euro.

Section II- The parliament will be made up of two-thousand members with each nation getting a set number of seats in proportion of the population as reported by the census.

Section III- The election of Members of Parliament shall be up to the government of each nation to decide each nation must send their Members of Parliament by January first every fifth year. Each member must be at least twenty-one years of age to be appointed.

Section IV- The Prime Minister shall be elected by the Members of Parliament, which will be the first vote of every new session, no member may vote for a member of the same nation to be Prime Minister during the nominations, the top two with the most votes go on to the runoff and the member with the most vote becomes Prime Minister.


Article II- Senate

Section I- The Senate shall have the full electoral authority over the executive branch and authority to remove any member of the Judiciary or Executive branch by a vote of two-thirds majority.

Section II- Each nation shall get one male and one female senator who shall be elected by the national legislature of each nation.

Section III- Senators shall hold their seats until the age of sixty-five, and be at least twenty one years of age, and give up all ownership of any businesses before being eligible.


Article III- Executive

Section I- The full authority to enforce the laws of the federation, ensure free and fair elections in the nation states and appoint judges to the judiciary.

Section II- The Governor General may create and appoint people to positions to help with the duties of the Executive Branch.

Section III- The Governor General serves for life unless removed by the senate. To be eligible one must be at least be twenty one years of age, and give up ownership of all businesses.



Article IV- Judicial

Section I- The full judicial authority shall be vested in the Supreme court of Europe and such lower courts as the parliament may from time to time ordain and establish.

Section II- The continent judiciary shall have the power to solve disputes between nations, review and strike down laws passed by the parliament if they violate the constitution and strike down national laws in direct contradiction to prohibitions placed against the nation states in the constitution.


Article V- Rights of the Nations

Section I- All powers not directly prohibited to the nation state by the constitution is a power of the state.


Article VI- Amending

Section I- The constitution shall be amenable in three ways as provided in this article.

Section II- Amendment process one, two-thirds of the parliament shall propose a new amendment to the constitution, and two-thirds of the nation states must vote to approve the amendment.

Section III- Amendment process two, one-fifth of the nations shall propose a new amendment to the constitution and then all the nations will vote to approve it, two-thirds must approve the amendment.

Section IV- Amendment process three, ten percent of a one-fifth of national population sign a petition for a national referendum to vote to propose an amendment, and then each nation shall put the amendment to a vote, it must pass in two-thirds of the nations to approve the amendment.

Section V- Once an amendment is passed it becomes law and all laws or parts of the constitution that contradict the new amendment are null and void.


Article VII- Joining the Federation

Section I- All nations in Europe must simply pass a national bill or referendum. All nations outside of Europe must get approval by the nation states.

 

I don't do Ewwww

 

what lol?

 

I'm American and don't give two turd about the policies of the Ewwwwww's

 

Separation of powers is essential for a republic. An all-powerful central government -- parliament can dictate what a nation can or cannot do -- is a certain path to tyranny. Appointments or elections for essentially life of the Senate, the President (Governor General) and presumably the Judiciary is a sure-fire recipe for non-responsive government. There is no mention of military defense. What if a nation does not pass the referendum?

 

The are 2 types of seperation of powers in the Government. Federal and state, the federal only being allowed to make laws or have powers specifically mentioned, and the 4 branches, only one of which is political, the rest are separate from politics and can not be affected by the people or the parliament to keep them from acting in their political best interest or being able to be interfered

What? The individual nations decide how they will elect their MPs, the senators are elected by the national legislatures and serve till 65 so that they can act as unbiased electors/appointments of the non partisan branches that will make them more responsive, its not supposed to be repsonsive to the people because they can not effect persons only nations.

The federal can request troops if a war is about to happen and I am sure it would not be hard to get, If a nation does not pass it, they basically are a territory since its not like they can say we are not going to follow the continental trade laws lol since they need trade

 

You should move to Europe and help them with this.

 

I will im saving up, in 3 years I will be in Belgium (the easiest to get residency/citizenship) just work for 3 years and I am a citizen of the EU and I will finally have Utopian citizenship

 

Good luck.

 

I don't see freedom of speech, property rights, or the right to keep and bear arms.

 

All of that is left up to the nations themselves.

 

EDIT FOR GOT TO HAD HOW TO REMOVE THE PRIME MINISTER

Section V- The Parliament may remove the Prime Minister with a vote of no confidence, which requires fifty percent plus one votes to remove, a vote of no confidence may be called when at least two hundred members sign a bill of removal, and present it to the floor

 

I'm trying to muster up two ****s to give.

 

So, essentially no freedoms.

 

Sounds pretty free to me. I thought you guys were big on state's rights.

 

Um the nations of Europe are thousands of years old, and have fully developed freedoms, there is no chance in hell you would get a fire arms amendment passed in Europe,

There is really no risk of any nation in Europe restricting freedom.

 

There should be no Federal Europe.