Engineered constitutional design keeps a powerful state accountable only when a vigilant society backs it, ready to complain, contest and rise up when power oversteps; design without vigilance does not hold.

groundsThe Narrow Corridor

It is accountable to society not just because it is bound by the U.S. Constitution and by the Bill of Rights, which emphatically exalts the rights of the citizens, but more important because it is shackled by people who will complain, demonstrate, and even rise up if it oversteps its bounds.