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The institution of a constitution allows for a
system of interpretation of laws to govern the people under any government,
outside of a system of tyranny. This 5 page paper argues that without a
constitution, any system of government is likely to revert to anarchy and
chaos. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the problems and virtues of social control and, or, justice. For some, such as Aristotle, monarchy is seen as the best form of government and its abuse, tyranny, as
the worst. Both ethics and politics are matters of discretionary judgment, arising out of the natural propensities of human beings. The institution of a constitution allows for a
system of interpretation of laws to govern the people under any government, outside of a system of tyranny. Without a constitution, any system of government is likely to revert
to anarchy and chaos. The purpose of a constitution is to set in writing the laws and privileges that are to be granted under the government for which it
is written. Gil Richard Musolf (2001), has said, "If human beings construct society, and that society constructs human beings, then not only are there a variety of historical
and cultural expressions of being human, but also the human being is not determined to be anything in particular. ... There are complex, unstable, opposing attitudes, habits, impulses which gradually
come to terms with one another, and assume a certain consistency of configuration, even though only by means of a distribution of inconsistencies which keeps them in watertight compartments, giving
them separate turns or tricks in action" (p. 283). Enforcing justice is not only morally justified, it is a precondition for individual freedom. Enforcing fairness, on the other
hand, is not necessary for a state of freedom, but would be an unjustified violation of individual autonomy. There should exist a certain level of liberty under a
government whose sovereignty rested on its fulfillment of a mandate to protect the life, liberty, and property of the people for whom it governed. The legitimacy of the political
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