Clarity and coherence

As with the winner of Euro 2004, I got one prediction about the new European Union constitution wrong. Writing in The Economist 21 months ago, I suggested that, like the UN Charter or the US constitution, a pocket-sized document would be a signal of its coherence. Well, at 626 grams and 325 pages, you need a poacher’s pocket, so it does not quite pass that test. But hang on. Compare what the EU ha...