ABSTRACT
The real English constitution is the public spirit, admirable, unique, infallible, and above praise, which leads, conserves, and protects all—what is written is nothing. At the end of the last century, loud complaints were made about a statesman who conceived the idea of introducing this same English constitution into a convulsed kingdom that was demanding any constitution whatever with a kind of madness. The constitution is the work of circumstances, and the number of these circumstances is infinite. But, since every constitution is divine in its origin, it follows that man cannot do anything unless he relies on God, in which case he becomes an instrument. A constitutional law is and can be only the development or the sanction of a preexistent and unwritten right. The corpus of fundamental laws that must constitute a civil or religious society have never been and never will be written.
