Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
Did that happen in the formation of any Federal state? If the USA had been subject to such conditions, then America as we know it wouldn't exist. Neither would Germany. Or India. Direct Democracy like that is dangerous and potentially illegal, as EU Law has supremacy over British law.
All states formed with violence and extreme bloodshed. This assumes that: A) The formation of the USE is inevitable and B) a Good Idea.

Not convinced on either point. The last time Europe was unified was under the Roman Catholic Church, and that was about as ineffectual and chaotic as the EU. I don't believe the EU can work, ever.