Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.
If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.