Suppose that a purely Prot people discover a new land in Oceania and decide to set up a new country there. Suppose further that most of these people are not followers of Rothbard or CN and consider that there is the need for a government, that is, an institution endowed with coercive powers to force all of its citizens to abide by the law.
This Prot people have a very serious problem to solve, indeed. They are divided along religious lines, in factions or sects. The religious division is the most dangerous of all divisions in a human society, the reason being that each one of the factions believes it has the truth and the most absolute of all truths - the truth of God. Thus, each faction feels it can impose its truth on all other factions and people because in doing it so it has the approval, if not the active support of God.
The problem in this would-be Prot country is that, if one of the religious factions gets the upper hand of government - that is, of coercive power - it will not take long until it will try to submit all other factions, and make life intolerable to all other members of society.
The only way to make this Prot country viable is for all of its factions to agree on a most basic issue - an agreement so fundamental that it must become the first law of the country - namely, that government cannot interfere in the private affairs of its citizens. This fundamental law limiting the powers of government to invade the private domain of individuals in society is called a Constitution.
The idea of a Constitution is a purely Protestant idea and one should not be surprised that the first modern Constitution, and the mother of all modern Constitution, was conceived in a predominantly Protestant country - the United States of America.
Suppose now that a purely Cath people discovers a new land and decides to set up a new country. Do they need a Constitution?
What for? These people are united in their religious outlook, and there are no divisions among them. Unless you divide them first. You can do it by introducing democracy with its attendant political parties, which are the the direct descendants of Protestant religious sects. It could then be argued that in this democratic, Cath country a Constitution is needed because it would prevent each political party to do, through the coercive power of government, to other political parties what each religious faction would be willing to do to all other factions in a Prot country - the imposition of her own truth to all members of society, that is, the rule of absolute power.
This argument does not stand once we realize that the distinguishing feature of a purely Cath society is her unity of thought, the commonly shared belief that there exists only one truth which is regarded by all as absolute truth. It thus follows that what each political party in a Cath society will try to do as soon as he can, regardless of whether there is a Constitution or not, is to impose his absolute truth on all other parties and members of society - that is, his absolute power.
A Constitution serves no purpose in a Cath society, other than providing jobs, careers, money and ephemeral reputation to so called constitutionalists. Although a Constitution is propaled as the most fundamental law of the country soon people will realized that it is the least respect law of all. The reason is that those who are most likely to violate the Constitution are precisely those who can do it with total impunity, for those are the people who hold the power of government.
This Prot people have a very serious problem to solve, indeed. They are divided along religious lines, in factions or sects. The religious division is the most dangerous of all divisions in a human society, the reason being that each one of the factions believes it has the truth and the most absolute of all truths - the truth of God. Thus, each faction feels it can impose its truth on all other factions and people because in doing it so it has the approval, if not the active support of God.
The problem in this would-be Prot country is that, if one of the religious factions gets the upper hand of government - that is, of coercive power - it will not take long until it will try to submit all other factions, and make life intolerable to all other members of society.
The only way to make this Prot country viable is for all of its factions to agree on a most basic issue - an agreement so fundamental that it must become the first law of the country - namely, that government cannot interfere in the private affairs of its citizens. This fundamental law limiting the powers of government to invade the private domain of individuals in society is called a Constitution.
The idea of a Constitution is a purely Protestant idea and one should not be surprised that the first modern Constitution, and the mother of all modern Constitution, was conceived in a predominantly Protestant country - the United States of America.
Suppose now that a purely Cath people discovers a new land and decides to set up a new country. Do they need a Constitution?
What for? These people are united in their religious outlook, and there are no divisions among them. Unless you divide them first. You can do it by introducing democracy with its attendant political parties, which are the the direct descendants of Protestant religious sects. It could then be argued that in this democratic, Cath country a Constitution is needed because it would prevent each political party to do, through the coercive power of government, to other political parties what each religious faction would be willing to do to all other factions in a Prot country - the imposition of her own truth to all members of society, that is, the rule of absolute power.
This argument does not stand once we realize that the distinguishing feature of a purely Cath society is her unity of thought, the commonly shared belief that there exists only one truth which is regarded by all as absolute truth. It thus follows that what each political party in a Cath society will try to do as soon as he can, regardless of whether there is a Constitution or not, is to impose his absolute truth on all other parties and members of society - that is, his absolute power.
A Constitution serves no purpose in a Cath society, other than providing jobs, careers, money and ephemeral reputation to so called constitutionalists. Although a Constitution is propaled as the most fundamental law of the country soon people will realized that it is the least respect law of all. The reason is that those who are most likely to violate the Constitution are precisely those who can do it with total impunity, for those are the people who hold the power of government.
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