There is a story that in late antiquity the people of Rome wanted to build new walls in order to protect themselves from the hordes ravaging Italy. Supposedly their top general tried to dissuade them saying "There is no point building walls if you dont have people who are willing to man them".
In the same vein, it seems to me that there are some similarities here to our current situation in America. There is no point in having laws if you are not willing to enforce the law. There is no reason to have a constitution if you can ignore it all you want and there are no consequences.
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