The American Constitution is a terse text written by the people of America (clearly stated in the Preamble), and accessible to ordinary people. However, it is more than the text itself, because it implies unwritten principles or higher laws that are not specified in the text, but enforceable beyond the judiciary. The Constitution tells us the way the American society is governed and how its government is organized. Not only does the Constitution, both written and unwritten, specify the entrenched procedures and institutional features of the American system; it also contains tools and techniques which make the system function.
In today's world, with plentiful global opportunities and spiraling technological changes, the Constitution is no longer separate from the fast changing world. Forever an unfinished text, it is subject to future amendments, but it remains the supreme law of the land, and the property open to all generations of American law-making (!) citizens for their contributions. Issues related to terrorism, gender or sexual orientation, immigration and the rights to become POTUS, virtual business transactions, Internet intellectual property, Internet freedom and privacy versus national security, medical research and human ethics, national health versus foreign aids and pandemic viruses...are among top priorities on the judicial agenda.
