text:  It is plain enough I grant that the constitution of Germany was not the work of an enlightened national will--did not proceed from any clear consideration of the best interests of the country--but _what constitution in the world is there that has not been the work in a great measure of accidental circumstances_? Since Solon and Lycurgus only the Constituent National Assembly in France and the stupid Cortes in Spain have dreamed of such a thing as constitution-making and the work of both has been blown as we see to the four winds