The second thing I'd like to say is that I disagree with my colleague on this side that the wording that is being suggested is one of little significance. Again and I'm not a legalist in terms of what these words mean it seems to me when you talk about what the government is putting forward in terms of the inherent right of self-government, this is taking a leaf out of the framers of the American constitution and in fact our own constitution and the concepts of John Locke, which talk about holding certain truths to be self-evident.
Je ne peux juger l'importance de ces mots comme peut le faire un juriste, mais il me semble que le gouvernement, lorsqu'il propose les dispositions concernant le droit inhérent à l'autonomie gouvernementale, prend exemple sur les auteurs de la constitution américaine—et en fait de notre propre Constitution—et suit les concepts élaborés par John Locke, qui dit que certaines vérités vont de soi.
