What the Fuck is a Constitution?

Face it. Some 400 or 500 fallible people. divided by faction, uninspied by classical liberal ideals, met in a room in Nude Elly and ratified this Constitution of India long before I was born - further, that this has been amended some 100 times, and Property even deleted from it. The word "Socialist" was added to the Preamble, for example. If such fundamental changes to the Constitution could be made by Indira Gandhi, surely we can insist on the Inviolability of Private Property.

There are nations still inspired by the ideals of their "founding fathers" - like the Americans. In Olde England too, the unwritten constitution was highly regarded.

But in Socialist India, where the Representation of People Act bars non-socialist parties from the fray, I wouldn't worship at the altar of this Constitution, or this Democracy.

The Constitution of India establishes The State, its Personnel, its vast duties and responsibilities, and its unlimited Powers.

There is no mention of City Mayors in this extremely long document.

Whereas the original American constitution - and the Americans succeeded in finding Liberty, unlike the poor, eternally confused French - guaranteed Liberty, Property and the Pursuit of Happiness, the Constitution of India has nothing for the Individual.

No Property.

No Liberty.

And certainly no Pursuit of Happiness.

Fuck this Shit.

As Mises put it - right off the front face of the bat:

A liberal government is a contradictio in adjecto. Governments must be forced into adopting liberalism by the power of the unanimous opinion of the people; that they could voluntarily become liberal is not to be expected.