Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity may decry the secular society that the Founding Fathers in fact enshrined in the Constitution, but in practice the outsized respect granted to religion in the public sphere has equated questioning the existence of God with being a bad person.
And his embrace of "originalism," which claims to look only at the language of the Constitution, but in practice has been inflected with a conservative agenda, indicates that he would follow the same road as Scalia, to the same places.
True, they are equal under the Turkish constitution, but in practice are systematically discriminated against in government appointments, business contracts, job opportunities, and education.
Nevertheless, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party retains an overwhelming majority in the legislature, and the military's outsized power is still entrenched in the constitution and in practice.
A living Constitution proponent may, in practice, be trying to figure out what the Constitution actually means rather than what society now needs it to mean.
(In authoritarian countries, civil liberties are often formally guaranteed in a constitution but ignored in practice).
But while the constitution is often ignored in practice, there is no prospect of the structures of government being reformed.
Reforming CalPERS will require a change to the state constitution, and that will in practice require a public vote in November 2014, at the earliest.
Endowed with a liberal constitution, which was increasingly violated in practice, the settlement satisfied neither the Poles nor the Russians.
Although religious freedom is enshrined in the North Korean constitution, it does not exist in practice and religious activity is severely restricted to officially recognised groups linked to the government.
