Hi, > Wow. First of all, I absolutely don't believe that Britain, the birth > place of Common Law, with its centuries-old tradition of the finest > jurisprudence, ever signed a legal document wherein its courts would > have to recognize precedent made in a court outside of its borders. > Quite astounding. Is this what globalization leads to? Talk about > eroding national sovreignty!! Was the signing of this Human Rights > treaty debated in Britain? If so, was the public made aware that the > document set up a court that actually makes law applicable in Britain? > I suspect not.
This is what the European Union is about. I am an instinctive and passionate pro-European, but the details and actual practice of it all can be rather surprising, to say the least. Unfortunately, debate on it is rather polarised between 'people who want to sign up to a European federalist super-state' and 'Euro-skeptic little Englanders'. It is quite difficult to make yourself heard above the noise if you are pro-European in principle, but distinctly skeptical in practice. -- Cheers, Bob
