Given last May's rejection of the European Union constitution and the autumn's suburban riots, such discontent may be unsurprising.
On one side, social unrest still lingers after voters decisively said no to the European Union constitution on May 29th.
Certainly the new draft European Union constitution, voted down twice in three days in France and the Netherlands, is a lost cause.
But at least Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, won his referendum on July 10th to approve the draft European Union constitution, by 57% to 43%.
So it is with extreme reluctance that Charlemagne has concluded that, when it comes to the most divisive issue left in the draft European Union constitution, both sides have a point.
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Next to all this, Mr Hollande, a Socialist hack who led a fractious party for 11 years and has never had a ministerial job, is a debutant: his biggest crisis was a 2005 party split over the draft European Union constitution.
After the interminable rows that marred the EU summit in Nice in 2000, it was realised that the expanding Union needed a written constitution.
The European Union's leaders met at a grandiose ceremony in Rome on Friday to sign the new constitution for the European Union.
In 1977, the Soviet Union published its new draft constitution, which was approved by the Supreme Soviet the following October.
After all, even without a constitution, the European Union has been hurting U.S. interests.
Take the European summit last December, when it fell to Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, to try to wrap up sensitive negotiations over a proposed constitution for the European Union.
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This year's Eurovision, on Saturday May 24th, demonstrated many of the problems and dangers of European integration, a few days before the launch of a proposed new constitution for the European Union.
On Sunday a former Italian prime minister, who now sits on the body which designed the planned constitution, warned the UK public of being misled over the draft constitution for the European Union.
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Along with the 13th and 14th Amendments, the 15th Amendment was ratified following the Confederacy's defeat to cement the Union's war aims into the Constitution.
With a population that large, it would have been one of the largest states in the union just a few years after the Constitution was adopted.
Brazil's Roman Catholic Church had argued against the decision to allow civil unions, saying the only union referred to within Brazil's constitution was that between a man and a woman.
In Brussels a group of 105 European politicians, under the chairmanship of the former French president Giscard d'Estaing, is busily putting the finishing touches on what will effectively be a constitution for the expanded European Union.
California voters decisively approved a ballot measure called Proposition 8, which amends the state Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
It is possible that a serious division over the proposed constitution could end up splitting the European Union.
In letters addressed to Mr Obama, Britain's David Cameron and other leaders of the European Union, they have outlined plans for a new constitution to be written while a post-Saleh provisional government runs the country.
Today, I call upon the Congress to promptly pass and to send to the states for ratification an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
Despite his failure ever to meet Gladstone, Mr Bognador draws heavily on the Old Man's philosophy to argue that Tony Blair's recent transformation of the British constitution is more likely to strengthen the union than to break it apart.
After the entry of Bulgaria and Romania, the union has 27 members, compared with 15 when the constitution-writing game began.
The Italian government, as president of the European Union, published its latest draft of a new EU constitution , including a proposal for some majority voting on foreign policy.
"If the union's basic administrative system does not violate the Constitution, then how could its special assessment have done so, " asked Breyer, who delivered his dissent from the bench, a rarely exercised privilege.
Negotiations continued ahead of this weekend's European Union summit, which is meant to approve a new EU constitution .
Observers from the African Union (AU) and European Union said the election process - the first under a new constitution - had been credible so far, despite the problems.
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He quickly notes that the preamble to the Constitution declares Americans are seeking a "more perfect" union.
Whether the European Union will be able to do any of the things a written constitution should have done is a question which remains open.
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