In a constitutional government, politicians are bound to abide by the rules laid out in the constitution. Furthermore, they should not uphold or enact any law that violates the constitutional rules.
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The US Government is governed by the people. While the government send down laws to the people, and essentially run the country, the citizens of the USA can get rid of those who are not upholding the views of the public. The people govern the government because it is the people that keep the government in check, somewhat. Very often, politicians chance their votes due to what their constituents want.
If referring to the delegates in the Constitutional Convention, those who preferred a stronger national government were called Federalists and those who favored states' rights were called Anti-Federalists.
For sure the first example is this: Public officeholders-those who govern-are regularly chosen on the basis of party. Not sure about the second example. When I find it, I'll update.
The Constitution can be changed. It is a difficult process and quite rightly so but the people can do away with the current constitution and start all over. Because it is difficult to redo a constitutional government, there are those, believing the constraints placed upon government and the freedoms acknowledged by the constitution make it impossible for government to govern. These are the people who reinterpret the Constitution in ways that allow government to expand the scope of their jurisdiction and legally disregard the natural rights of the people. It is one thing to take a liberal view of the Constitution and another thing entirely to claim the Constitution says what it does not say.
australia has five principal traditions and those are: settler-state developmentalism; civilizing capitalism; the development of a social-liberal constitutional tradition; traditions of federalism and the exclusiveness/inclusiveness of the state and society