Cahill: Ireland’s Constitutional Amendability and Europe’s Constitutional Ambition: the Lisbon Referendum in Context

Maria Cahill, Ireland’s Constitutional Amendability and Europe’s Constitutional Ambition: the Lisbon Referendum in Context, German Law Journal, vol. 9, No. 10, 1 October 2008.

For some of those who support the Lisbon Treaty, it is difficult to accept that a 53% majority of the 53% voting electorate of a country of a population of 4.4 million should, by voting to reject ratification of the Treaty, single-handedly bring to a halt a process which involves 27 countries with a combined population of almost 500 million.