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by iamnothere 18 days ago
Democracy is bound by the limits of the Constitution, outside of an amendment or a revolution. (Note that the latter is usually considered a Bad Thing; occasionally it works out for the better, but just as often for the worse.)
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the EU doesn't have a constitution
It does, it's just not the US constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_the_European_Union
Right, it has a set of treaties, not a unified constitution. And there have been a number of cases in which member state laws clashed with EU laws:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_European_Union_law

Is CA in the US or the EU?

Didn’t think so, and we didn’t ask for your opinion

> This is EU Cookies Banner level of state interference making UX worse for everyone

A couple of comments up in this thread.