> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html?_r=1&ref=us
>
> There are, of course, limits to empirical research based on coding and counting, and there is more
> to a constitution than its words, as Justice Antonin Scalia told the Senate Judiciary Committee
> in October. “Every banana republic in the world has a bill of rights,” he said.
[Extended cackle of Imperial doom]. The screaming stupidity of this Empire never ceases to amaze me. Every time I think they can't possibly plunge beneath their previous level of bigoted provincialism and intellectual numbskullitude -- they prove me wrong.
The era of banana republics has vanished. They've won their independence, through decades of struggle and by creating associations like ALBA, UNASUR, AU, SCO, the BRICS. In fact, many of the Latin American nations have constitutions which are light-years beyond our own.
-- DRR