Another important element of the “material core” of the Constitution is the principle of the sovereignty of the people.

The people are the source of all power in the State”, the Constitution states. This is what makes the Czech Republic a democratic country.

It is the clearly defined, historically authentic people, politically identifiable demos, who are the Czech sovereign,

the holder of sovereignty of the Czech state. The whole Czech constitutional, legal and political system springs from power of the people.

Therefore we should ask who is the source of the legal and political power in the European Union?

It certainly is not the people, because no “European people”, demos, exist.

The power in the EU is derived from the institutions established by inter-governmental treaties or agreements.

owever, this conception of power is in contraction with the conception of the state as defined in the Czech Constitution.

This leads to other questions: Would the European Union after adopting the Lisbon Treaty be as democratic as the present Czech Republic?

(most likely no it wouldn't)

oes the European Union have sufficiently structured distribution of powers and sufficient control, supervision and appeal mechanisms?

its political system based on free and voluntary establishment and free competition of political parties?

(again no, it isn't)

it possible to change the existing EU authorities by electing the opposition?

(again no, it isn't.)

If the Lisbon Treaty came into force, the European executive could force upon us even such things national parliament would never approve.

It would broaden the ways to bypass the national legislative assemblies,

hich would weaken democracy in the member states, including the Czech Republic.

The Lisbon Treaty thus violates the constitutional principle of the sovereignty of the Czech people.

(thought I would share this. it is interesting. If we had only had someone like this here. *sigh* is.gd/9zEW