Zachary_Kurtz comments on All hail the Lisbon Treaty! Or is that “hate”? Or just “huh”?

[Zachary_Kurtz]

Maybe the Soviet Bloc would be a good example?

[Stuart_Armstrong]

Not really; it wasn’t democratic, and was nearly completely dominated by a single country (the USSR).

Ok, so the original US consitution wasn’t really democratic either, but it’s still much closer to the EU than was the soviet bloc...