By that logic, the USSR and mid-Revolution France were the best of all societies, because their constitutions valued individual liberty AND the common good. Let

By that logic, the USSR and mid-Revolution France were the best of all societies, because their constitutions valued individual liberty AND the common good. Let's emulate them in all ways, shapes, and forms! /s What a constitution says and how a country operates are two different things. Also, and this is something I think we're all guilty of, you're comparing documents from two radically different eras. By German constitution I'm assuming you mean the Basic Law? There are lot of differences between the Englishman of 1789 and the Germans (as coerced by the French, English, and Americans) of 1949.