Thus Dana Rosemary Scallan and others argued that the NO vote reaffirmed the primacy of Ireland's constitution over that of the EU.  As an unpublished letter of mine pointed out - and as a letter published today pointed out - the Irish constitution lost this primacy when we joined the EU - and thus to oppose Lisbon on this basis is actually to oppose the EU membership per se.

I would actually be interested in knowing how that argument goes, because the EU remains, constitutionally, an intergovernmental treaty organization. Sovereignty is (so to speak) jointly and severally (emphasis on the severally) with the member states. I don't know that any other EU member state goes as far as Spain in allowing the transfer of competences to the EU

Section 93
1. Authorization may be granted by an organic act for concluding treaties by which powers derived from the Constitution shall be transferred to an international organization or institution. It is incumbent on the Cortes Generales or the Government, as the case may be, to ensure compliance with these treaties and with resolutions originating in the international and supranational organizations to which such powers have been so transferred.

but sovereignty remains with the Spanish people and the government cannot enter into treaties that contradict the constitution.

The primacy of national constitutions has never been in question and I challenge you to quote an EU document that contradicts me on this.

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