This article in the International Herald Tribune is entertaining if read in the serious vein of the comments offered. With plans to revive that EU constitutional process, the new President of the Council, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, is looking to include the “masses” in the process this time around:

Schüssel called that process elitist and anachronistic, declaring, “I want to avoid a top-down approach.” This time, he said, a broad spectrum of citizens including scientists, journalists and professors should contribute ideas for a new constitution.

Consulting scientists, journalists, and professors is considered a bottom-up approach? Unwashed masses definitely redefined!