Trên tất cả, chúng ta thấy rằng tất cả các ý tưởng của chúng tôi được sản xuất trong lịch sử - ý tưởng của chúng ta về Thiên Chúa và các vị thần, ý tưởng của dân tộc và giới tính và chủng tộc, ý tưởng của chúng ta về đúng sự thật và tốt đẹp, ý tưởng của chúng ta về xã hội và pháp luật. | intergovernmental societies and constitutionalism 351 Above all we see now that all our ideas have been historically produced -our ideas of God and gods our ĩdeas of nation and gendrr and rcee our ideas of the tuee and the good and the baautiful oui ideas of cociety and law our ideas of 11 0 00031 sotiaty and 60 00031 hw our ideas about our own humanity our ideas about the past and the future our ideas about ideas. All of them might have been chem . All of them are not otherwise. Social consciousness forms itself organically by accretion and transformation. New ideas grow in the compost of old ideas. It follows also that old ideas contain the possibility of new ideas. The ideas we have contain the ideas that we might have. The present state of human 30 00000 5 0 30 the postibliiiy oO new states of conscĩousness which are ours oo expire and ours oo choose. The genealogy of constitutionalism At the level of all-humanity social consciousness is formed from the flow of consciousness within and between the public minds of oount-less subordinate societies over thousands of eaars as they fonatituie themselves in consciousness as they form their self-consciousness in the light of the ielC-canttitutino of T o satieties. Nowhere it this. more true than in the evolution of the idea oc fanstitutiallalism. Tee paso ft the idea of constitutionalism is a past which extends over several millennia and many cultures and includes not only the turbulent development ofsocial consciousness within particular societies but also the flow of consciousness among all the most dynamic cultures ancient and mod-era. So deep are its roots in human social experience in all times and all places we might well wonder whether it is a manifestation of some part of the genetĩc programme othiumen sscpalitingi a spctirtigharsaiariatic and not merely a contingent by-product of hisoory. The future of the idea of constitutionalism as a possible idea within our ideas of 60 00 031 socieey and
