The French

I wouldn't vote for a 485 page bureaucratic document as a constitution either. I don't know whether the vote reflects a desire for democracy and freedom or just unhappiness with what the EU has done for them so far. It would be nice if it meant an end to socialism in France, but that's probably not in the cards.

The linked editorial gives this great quote from an EU bureaucrat:

"They haven't read [the new constitution]. If they had read it, they wouldn't understand it. If they understood it, they wouldn't like it." Nonetheless, he thought that the French should vote yes anyway.

Ouch. Maybe they're smarter than he gives them credit for.

So they'll keep bringing up for votes until it passes. I doubt that anybody will bother trying to find out what's wrong with it and correcting it, though, because it was written by bureaucrats who see their role as introducing complexity, and get very nervous at the mere mention of freedom and personal responsibility.