Constitution

For the text of the Constitution, see Law:Constitution of the Year I

The Constitution of the Principality of the Pillow Fortress, or the Constitution of the Year I (Constitution) is the second highest law of the Principality, subordinate to the State Charter but superior to the Pillow Fortress Code and any and all other laws. The third such document to establish government in the Pillow Fortress, the Constitution of the Year I succeeds the Summer and Autumn Constitutions, both of which were discarded using the Princess's power to disestablish a government that has become unworkable, though in practice the Constitution did not fundamentally change the nature of the government, but rather streamlined it.

Philosophy

The reasoning behind splitting the foundational documents of the Pillow Fortress into two is one of practical concerns. The State Charter consists of ideals, a description of what the state should be. Potential problems arise in the implementation of those ideals. It may be possible that the most effective means of achieving the goals of the State Charter are unknown to us, and so we are limited to only those means and methods of which we are aware. Already as the history of the Constitution shows, it is a document which is certain to be modified in the future as it has been in the past, perhaps even replaced for a fourth time. Had these two documents been merged into one, there would come the temptation to fix any political problems not with changing the implementation in the constitution, but rather by changing the ideals and therefore eliminating the need for whatever flawed implementation is causing the strife in the first place. Even if the ideals were entrenched clauses, surely those could still be amended, but in a roundabout way of changing the nature of entrenched clauses first, and then amending them. The separation of the foundational documents does not wholly eliminate the threat to the ideals of the Principality, but it makes them far safer as there's only a legal means to alter the subordinate, lesser document.