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The FOC papers Tackling myths about the European Constitutional Treaty or put another way the FOC hoodwinking for Europe
Myth Five: The Constitutional Treaty creates a European superstate

The Queen will remain the Head of State
The President of the European Council will not replace any head of State or Government. He or she will not act as Head of State or outrank Heads of State, including The Queen.

So who is suggesting that the The President of the European Council would outrank the Queen this is just invented spin to misdirect attention from the real question which is,if the Queen is, like the rest of us is a citizen of the E,U and John Major told us she is, as such she is subject to the same duties to the EU as the rest i.e. she owes duty to a higher authority than herself, as that is clearly the case then how can the FOC substantiate their claim that “The Queen will remain the Head of State”.

Monarch
One who reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right, especially:
a. A sole and absolute ruler.
b. A sovereign, such as a king or empress, often with constitutionally limited authority: a constitutional monarch.
• One that commands or rules:
• One that surpasses others in power or preeminence:

Anne Palmer looks at this absurd situation…

TREACHERY? TREASON? TRAITORS?

How does Citizenship affect the Queen?

Her Majesty has British citizenship for she was born here in the United Kingdom of Great Britain-she wasn’t always Queen (and was not expected to be Queen) and she served in the armed services during the last war. She is therefore as British as they come. More-over, and I quote Sir Ivan Lawrence here (Hansard 1st Feb 1993 Col 68) “It is generally accepted by international lawyers, as well as by the Home Secretary and the Government, that Her Majesty the Queen is pre-eminently the British citizen and is therefore subject to the law of the land as any citizen would be. The last member of the royal family who said that he was not a British citizen and that he was not subject to the laws and obligations of the land had a little walk further down Whitehall, which ended in the loss of an important part of his body and a number of years of civil war”.

It was also pointed out by Mr Spearing in response, “”Unlike the legislation of the Community, which would bind the duty of the monarch of legislation of this House, consequent on a legislative programme of the Community, under the intergovernmental parts of the treaty (Maastricht) that require a single process, it would become the duty of the Crown and its prerogative-meaning government, which traditionally has not been completely within the grasp of this House-to concur with whatever the intergovernmental institution decreed? For the first time, the prerogative of the Crown, as well as the Crown itself, would become subject to the macro-treaties of which we speak”.

Later on a Mr Wardle makes clears, “ The Maastricht Treaty does not in any way affect the constitutional position of the Monarch. Her Majesty as an individual would of course enjoy the same rights within the EC as any other United Kingdom citizen”. That statement (to me at least) makes clear that if the Queen enjoys the same rights she will incur the duties of European citizenship and like the rest of us will be so bound. Our Queen, Head of State, the supreme citizen of our political entity, would owe allegiance to some higher, wider authority-a superstate. Did Sir Edward Heath also point out once that the position of the Crown would not be affected by our entry into this Common market?

Just like we are all enjoying those same rights eh? Some remember John Major triumphantly saying that even the Queen was now a citizen of the European Community. We can see that without any doubt whatsoever, like us all, Her Majesty was not consulted, yet it was a decision and a commitment they made that day while debating the Maastricht Treaty it involved not just US, but our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We also know now, without any doubt, that the Union is not going to be an open, decentralise, democratic Union, it is not even to become a federally run United States of Europe, but a unitary, centralised political social European Superstate. A Superstate that wants its own Constitution.

The Queen having been made a citizen of the Community would and especially if the EU Constitution is ratified, make her subordinate to the President of the Commission whoever it might be at that time. She might be called Queen, but as a citizen of that state, he/she will be President of the whole of the European Union. That also poses the question, who will take precedence at official functions?
My goodness yes, EU Citizenship will eventually bring forth many changes, as it was always meant to, for there was absolutely no point in EU Citizenship if it meant nothing at all. Just to enhance? A concept?

From my reading of Hansard, and the way our MP’s debated the subject, it becomes obvious, without any doubt what-so-ever that the Queen was never asked, was never consulted, and was treated in exactly the same way as the people of this Country. As an aside, I will also add that the reading of Hansard books from the 1950’s-1975’s to after the Treaty of Rome was signed, the same thing happened then.