This is hilarious! The Constitution? Paper constitutions aren't worth the paper they are printed on. They are an Americanism. Before the American paper Constitu

This is hilarious! The Constitution? Paper constitutions aren't worth the paper they are printed on. They are an Americanism. Before the American paper Constitution, constitutions were exactly what the word signified - the structure of a ruling system. And a Constitution always becomes a small-c constitution even apart from the amendment process. Notice the actual result of the New Deal legislation. The rise the administrative state. Agencies that make, execute and judge on rules. Legislative bills that are shells for bureaucrats to fill (Dodd-Frank, PPACA, etc). NONE of these things are authorized by the "Constitution." Please note that I haven't opined on whether I think this development is positive or negative. I do think that is a secondary matter to the importance that smart people such as the HN audience _understand_ the real structure (small-c constitution) of America is only tenuously related to the big-C Constitution. Okay downvote away gentlemen!