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To: Elsewhere who wrote (166953)7/23/2005 11:24:19 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Germany we didn't have one at all.

I would guess that you're supposed to have one ... some day. Is there any projection as to when such a referendum might occur?

jttmab

P.S. In one way, consider yourself lucky. In the US we wouldn't be allowed to vote on such a thing. That would be for our wizards in Congress and the White House to decide for us. In our "democracy" the people are too stupid to be allowed to vote on such important things.



To: Elsewhere who wrote (166953)7/23/2005 11:46:12 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
At least Chirac didn't cancel the referendum.

Like his 1997 dissolution de l'Assemblée Nationale, he would have had second thoughts had he predicted the outcome :-)

It's unfortunate that such things can wind up being decided on irrelevant criteria, but it's one of the risks you take by having a functioning democracy.

I don't think anything and everything should be decided by popular vote, but such referendums do have their place.


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