ABSTRACT
A constitution is defined as the collection of principles that form the basis around which society is organized and that are sometimes codified in writing. A constitutional democracy tries to grant political primacy to democratic decision making, but it also indicates the limits to democratic rule: the citizen’s private domain may not be entered. Francis Fukuyama identifies constitutional democracy as the model that has triumphed at the end of history. Democracy was to be not just a government for the people, that is to say, in accordance with the people’s wishes; it would also be a government of the people, that is to say, a political system in which the people actively participate in the decision making. The Americans who have driven the further development of the conception of constitutionalism, and it has been rightly said that “the story of modern constitutionalism may in many ways be depicted as a great debate between the American and the British principles.”.
