Your comments are appreciated as usual. What the constitution is designed to do and does are common discourse in your country as they are in others, and for supreme courts to interpret and adjudicate, not always with compliance.
The long struggle for constitutionally provided rights for blacks and Guantanamo come to mind. Successive presidents abuse constitutional rights despite the courts. States changed their laws at point of a federal bayonet.
As for lying, your presidential aspirants lie consistently, and for all its errors in reporting history on the fly, your national newspaper of record, The New York Times, is recognized as one of the greatest newspapers in the world.
Its major role in defying federal laws to publish the truth and remove the curse of the Vietnam war---possibly saving the lives of those who served with you---was a singular victory in the public interest everywhere.
