This constitution might be offered to any human association from China to Geneva. But a constitution that is made for all nations is made for none; it is a pure abstraction, an academic exercise made according to some hypothetical ideal, which should be addressed to man in his imaginary dwelling place.
Joseph de Maistre
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Then God help us now.