In the United States we have a nearly universal reverence for our Constitution, the Constitution of 1789 together with its amendments. Largely inspired by the aura of that great document, citizens of the United States tend also to be strong constitutionalists, lower case, believing that every nation should be governed by a written constitution guaranteeing rights, representation, legality, and stability.
It is something of an irony, then, that the Constitution
appears, at least on the face of things, to have been unconstitutional.
