Thing is, we *are* on our 4th or 5th constitution if you understand constitutions correctly, as the totality of major rules structuring politics: bsky.app/profile/kjep...

Yeah, @hurricanexyz.bsky.social puts it in terms of we are in the 4th Republic I think rather than 4th constitution but he might correct me here

I'm unusual in that I think the current number is exactly two

Causing fights in the political science and law departments by saying the US Constitution is functionally amended often and irregularly because of Article V making it impossible to be actually amended regularly and infrequently

I finally have a view on this but find arguing about it sort of pointless. The law/politics divide is intractable, like conceptually, so why even bother

I mean, in the end it's just the frame that you use to discuss it. Nobody likes to confront it, but it's just norms all the way down, and if they are not reinforced by consistent application and deterrence they collapse, same as any other

This is also *why* the US is now in a rolling constitutional crisis; the constitutional norms around how domestic politics even *works* and how basic power is arranged through government, how it makes decisions, and its relationship to the public, are being fundamentally altered day by day.

That's my music

Certainly agree with that