Why do we need a constitution?
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The long-term unemployed now constitute a sort of underclass.
The publishers claim that the book constitutes 'the first sequential exposition of events and thus of the history of the revolution'.
The takeover of the embassy constitutes a blatant violation of international law.
They felt that our discussions with other companies constituted a breach of our agreement.
Her refusal to sell the house constituted a major blow to our plans.
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In short, constitutions strive for a delicate balance to ensure that the collective power of society invested in the state is neither dissipated or fragmented to become ineffective (for this results in lawlessness and anarchy detrimental to the realisation of the good life), nor so tightly organised and untrammelled that it takes away our freedoms, becomes oppressive. The potential to abuse public power is inherent in the very exercise of it, an ever present possibility in all states. Thus, the earliest constitutions of the world developed to check the tyranny of our rulers