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"Mediawiki is not my world. It is a PHP-based software with all the security issues of a php system. This project will therefore move to a Zope-based platform in the next few months. All registered users are welcome to join the project again." Juh 09:45, 27 Dec 2006

Work in progress

• "In the old wikitution.org we took the draft treaty as basis of our own draft. But this approach failed. Everybody was choked by this voluminous work reducing a constitution to the least common denominator. So now we start a constitution from scratch." http://www.openplans.org/projects/wikitutionorg/project-home

• preliminary site: http://zope.r-folk.net/2.10/www.wikitution.org

Ireland stopped the treaty of Lisbon

Irish voters stopped the treaty in a referendum. A new chance for a real constitution?

Wikitution closed for anonymous users

"Due to massive spam entries I closed wikitution for anonymous users and stopped the registration of new accounts. If you want to collaborate in this project, please drop me a note (info /at/ hasecke dot com) and I will create an account for you. I am sorry for this inconvenience, but being the only administrator for this project I am too busy to rollback all this spam." Juh 12:44, 14 Dec 2005 (CET)

Spammers! You are the filth of the net.

Europe needs a free and democratic constitution

It is time to write a free and democratic European constitution to save Europe from falling apart and to make Europe a democratic unity. We believe that a constitution should be written by the citizens, not by European officials, who are too remote from the citizens and too immersed in the current workings of the EU to come up with an attractive new document.

The citizens of France and the Netherlands rejected the constitution for many reasons. The text is too long, too complicated and too bureaucratic. It is a constitution written by states not by citizens. In fact it was a treaty between the member states of the EU.

We believe that Europe needs a free and democratic constitution written by citizens of Europe and accepted by the huge majority of all citizens in the European Union.

For pragmatic reasons we take existing drafts to improve upon, rather than writing a new constitution from scratch. We hope to cover all possible issues in this way. The drafts in use are:

• The official draft Treaty  (http://europa.eu.int/constitution/), the ratification process of which is now uncertain due to its rejection in referendums in France and the Netherlands
• Inspired by a Letter to the Editor in The Economist, a revived version of that magazine's 2000 draft constitution (http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=403911)

Possible bases for a constitution which would much more consistent with human rights and the respect for the environment, and which acknowledges Europe's historical and continued history of racism, genocide and theft of natural resources from around the world, include

• PGA (Peoples' Global Action) Hallmarks (http://www.pgaconference.org/_internet/hallmarks.html)

If you want to start a new european language please take the text for your language from this website (http://europa.eu.int/constitution/) and integrate it into wikitution. First take the Table Of Contents and copy it into the Main Page of your Language. Change all entries to internal links so that they are clickable. Have a look at the English or German version how to organize the different parts of the constitution.

Then start modifying the text. Have a look at our Wikitution:project guidelines.

Please help us write a better constitution.

We hope to provide all languages soon. For now there are only versions in the following languages.

• (de:Verfassung:Hauptseite)
• (en:Second Treaty of Rome:Main Page)
• (Shorter draft based on The Economist proposal: en:Economist2000Thread)
• (es:Constitución:Portada
• (fr:Constitution:Accueil)
• (nl:Tweede verdrag van Rome:Hoofdpagina)
• (ra:Constitution:Frontispicio)

• A Constitution for Europe in 20 languages (http://europa.eu.int/constitution/)

We are currently working on 96 pages.

Links which may help

(Int.)

• Jurispedia (http://jurispedia.org/) (The share law)
• euABC.com (http://www.euabc.com/index.phtml?page_id=115) (Dictionary of words related to the EU)
• [1] (http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/) Analysis of the Treaty by Etienne Chouard in different langages

(Engl.)

• Law-ref.org (http://www.law-ref.org/EU/contents.html) (Full hypertext Constitution and more)
• Gandalf:Engl. (http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/%7Ebrit/EU-CONST-EN-cc/index.html) (Hypertext Constitution)
• Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/c101.html)

(Fr.)

• NotreConstitution.Net (http://notreconstitution.net) (Full Wiki Constitution and more)
• Gandalf:Fr. (http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/%7Ebrit/EU-CONST-FR-cc/index.html) (Hypertext Constitution)
• La page d'Etienne Chouard (Partisan du Non) (http://etienne.chouard.free.fr/Europe/)

(De.)

• (Papers from the Bertelsmann-Stiftung) (http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A000F0A-CF738095/stiftung/hs.xsl/19391_19714.html)
• Einführendes Statement zum Vertrag über eine Verfassung für Europa anlässlich des Besuchs beim Conseil Constitutionnel von Rudolf Mellinghoff (Richter des Bundesverfassungsgerichts) (http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/bilan/annexes/20050211/int2a.htm)

Is this a realistic project?

It is true, there are a lot of challenges. If the constitution shall be written by citizens from all Member States, it has to be accessible in a lot of different languages. Also will it not be easy to decide about what the final draft will be. Even if these (and other) problems might bar our's way, we at least should give it a try. And even if we failed and never got to a final draft within it, this initiative at least will be the source for a lot of the content of the constitution we finally will have to decide about. So please do not hesitate to join!