"... a constitutional order [i]s a rich and self-sufficient form of life that produces its own knowledge, as well as its own canons for how to adjust that knowledge to political and social reality. A constitution produces a textually organized culture. The persistence of a community of interpreters within this culture "to go to the trouble" of understanding themselves and their social world by constant reference to the text ratifies the text as fundamental. The text becomes both a model of and a model for a world." (The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah, Alan L. Mittleman, 2000; page 160).
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