SEPARATISM is something that destroys the bone marrow of constitutionalism. The right to secede from a unified nation does not form a right of a democratic constitution, even if secession is often firmly grounded in moral reasoning. In other words, a moral right is not always commensurate with constitutionalism—a system that empowers mankind to organize themselves in a collective body.

What needs to be engaged, according to Sunstein, is a