Rick Siegel Prespectives on Freedom and Liberty

Will the Irish fall to the fallacies of Royalty?

With the repackaging of the EU Constitution into the Lisbon Treaty came the dictate that popular vote would no longer take place after the public trouncing it took as a Constitution. But one bastion Republic held out that anything to do with the sovereign act of making laws must be held up to public referendum. That was the Republic of Ireland. Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty handily just as the French and Dutch had when people were allowed a say.