These notes represent a few additional considerations in
developing the Constitution of Halexandria and other such
documents. There is often the assertion, for example, that any
constitutional mandate would ideally utilize the best of an
existing system, and to draw from the lessons of the past in
order not to repeat the same old mistakes. One, therefore, does
not necessarily want a carbon copy of the Constitution for the
United States of America, and thus incur all the liabilities and
baggage thereof -- including the degree to which it has been
repeatedly violated [See, for example, The First Amendment,
Privacy, 9-11-2001, Shredding the Magna Carta, Free Speech, and
Enemy Combatants], or in which it has been legally modified, but
on the basis of vested interests and in violation of the
inalienable rights of individuals. In many respects, previous
such documents should not be a strict guide, even if lessons
learned from them in terms of what works and what doesn’t work
can in fact be gleaned and incorporated