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Generally you can't carve out from a constitution, it is all encompassing. You can reinterpret perhaps but "carve outs" are only by amendment to the constitution. It's a concept called constitutional supremacy. There's generally ranking to laws. Think of a venn diagram with subset circles inside bigger circles.

Constitutional Law > Statutory/Legislative Law > Administrative/Regulatory Law > Case Law/Common Law



How do you reconcile what you’re saying with the actual situation?

A relevant example is the border search exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception


Very simple. Rule of law in the US has been crumbling for some time




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