| Summary: | The European Union has played a crucial role in history as a constantly growing and evolving organization with the aim of a political union since the foundation of European Coal and Steel Community. The Union, started with the original Six and transformed into a supranational 27-member organization, finds it difficult to follow its path in the framework of Nice Treaty. Therefore, in order to govern the EU in a more democratic, transparent and effective way, the members decided to prepare a Treaty to replace all the existing founding Treaties. Due to the criticisms against the democratic deficit of the Union, the undemocratic and non-transparent decisions taken and intergovernmental conferences whose achievement has become controversial, Convention method which was used to prepare The Charter of Fundamental Rights was preferred in the Constitution process. In spite of all the efforts towards democratic participation, the Constitution was rejected in French and Dutch referenda. The aim of this study is to analyze the preparation process of the Constitution and Convention works and the rejection dynamics of the Constitution in the framework of Eurobarometer data. Rising of Permissive Consensus, an intergovernmental approach lost its importance since 1990s and the Lisbon Treaty which is to replace the Constitution were also analyzed.
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