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davidn3600

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8. It wouldnt take that to break free from the EU

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 2, 2016, 03:47 PM

Jul 2016

According to the treaty, all it takes for ANY member of the EU to leave is to invoke Article 50 of the treaty. That can be done simply by a parliament vote.

Which means if you hypothetically say the US was part of the EU, we could break free just by the House and Senate passing a law and the president signing it. That's it.

There is nothing in our constitution that says the states have to agree to break free from an international treaty.

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'We are the 48%': tens of thousands march in London for Europe [View all] malaise Jul 2016 OP

OK. So the other 52% don't matter? davidn3600 Jul 2016 #1

It takes a two-thirds vote by both the House and the Senate, plus 75% of the state legislatures, Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #3

Britain has Parliamentary Supremacy malaise Jul 2016 #6

It wouldnt take that to break free from the EU davidn3600 Jul 2016 #8

Agree! LeftishBrit Jul 2016 #9

I agree but a Conservative prime minister thought he could pacify the far-right wing of pampango Jul 2016 #10

He did malaise Jul 2016 #12

I didn't vote - I wasn't allowed to. Myrddin Jul 2016 #13

If many of the 1,000,000+ Brits who live in European countries could not vote that pampango Jul 2016 #14

The problem is, they complain but didn't vote. FLPanhandle Jul 2016 #2

Young people don't vote in large numbers unless they're forced to do so. Just reading posts Jul 2016 #4

It's great that liberals turn out to protest a conservative victory. Better would have been pampango Jul 2016 #5

+1,000 malaise Jul 2016 #7

"Elections matter." Igel Jul 2016 #11