In at least one hundred and fifty words explain the connection between the rights and responsibilities of individuals under constitutionalism and the right to resist an illegitimate government

The constitutionalism of The Federalist Papers directs our attention away from its scientific and historical roots and toward its particular ambitions. The reason for this is that the term “constitution” is too narrowly construed as a structure of institutions. That is merely the transferable portion—the Persian fire—of a given society, the characteristics which it possesses but which any society may possess upon election. By contrast, there are other characteristics of any given society which no other society may possess. This non-transferable portion of every society is included in Aristotle’s definition of the constitution as an “arrangement of offices,” and is what we mean by “a way of life.