This is why I don’t find constitutional originalism to be compelling. Suppose that at some point the EU evolves into the kind of collectivity that commands its citizens’ fervent loyalties in the same way America commands those of its citizens. [Such that] in the late 21st century you have Europeans looking back at the signers of the Maastricht treaty with the kind of reverence Americans now accord to their first generation of national politicians.
When Europe-wide political questions come up, they’ll ask: but would Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterand and John Major have wanted a Europe in which privately cloned human-animal hybrids could use viral DNA material drawn from public health databanks?
