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iiclr-17555	Ward, Ian	The Best of All Possible Worlds? Maastricht and the United Kingdom	1994	26	.pdf	application/pdf	11625	585	56	Such was the strength of rebel feeling, and the incontrovertibility of their argument, that Major was forced, paradoxically, to take the stand that the vote was purely and simply a confidence vote, and moreover, that given the presence of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht Treaty, the actual bill itself was of very little significance. In the words of one political commentator: The absence of clear guidelines ... tends to suggest that the reason why the definition of subsidiarity in the Maastricht Treaty is so vague is precisely because there can be little agreement at a political level on the substance of the concept in the European Community today.	cache/iiclr-17555.pdf	txt/iiclr-17555.txt