Consent is more commonly proposed as a part of the constitution rule that sets up the political community in the first place.
But last weekend the Guardian Council, a powerful body of clerics and jurists responsible for upholding the constitution, ruled that the president had overstepped his authority.
The unofficial court in western India, one of thousands of community tribunals that operate outside India's Constitution, ruled that Kamble's Hindu wedding ceremony had not taken place "according to community norms," including a test to determine whether the bride was a virgin.
In a country without a written constitution, the rules that underlie a properly-run society are particularly vulnerable to the whims of populist politicians, and vigilance is therefore especially important.Britons are lucky people, and complacent ones.
Alfredo Stroessner amended the 1967 constitution in 1977 to allow his reelection indefinitely as president, but the 1992 constitution specifically rules that out.
But whether it concentrates or disperses these powers, a constitution always contains at least the rules that define the structure and operation of the government that runs the community.
This "originalist" approach placed Scalia in outright opposition — which he often expressed in the liveliest way — to the liberal view, which saw the constitution as an evolving set of rules that could be adapted to changing values and times.
"Our position is that there has to be a constitution that sets forth the rules that everyone has to follow.
In Washington, the Court incorporated the Compulsory Process Clause against the states, holding that "the Constitution is violated by arbitrary rules that prevent whole categories of defense witnesses from testifying".
These provisions cannot be applied like the requirement for 30 year-old senators; they require more elaborate reasoning to show why very general language applies in some specific cases but not in others, and over time the various examples turn into rules that the Constitution does not mention.
