The Citizens Climate Convention proposes to submit two sets of provisions to the referendum: the first modifying the preamble and article 1 of the Constitution, the second creating the crime of “ecocide”. Before the referendum is held, the first procedure requires a conforming vote of the two assemblies, the second a simple parliamentary debate not followed by a vote.
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To the minds sincerely seduced by the novelty of the method and by the audacity of the vision, the following remarks will try to show, by sticking to legal considerations, that the public authorities, if they intended to follow these proposals, would enter a dead end.
First remark: the Citizen Climate Convention considers that its referendum proposal covers all the constitutional measures it recommends. But other of his proposals would also require, in order to prosper, a modification of the Constitution, such as the establishment of a "High Authority of planetary limits"
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