Every ordered society is governed by a set of core rules, customs, and principles. This is true for every species that lives in a structured community: a pack of wolves or a pod of whales, a hive of honeybees or a colony of ants, a herd of deer or a flock of geese, a clan of elephants or a tribe of apes and even a forest of trees.2 Only humans devise constitutions. Devising constitutions, or fundamental laws, is so elemental to human society that the collective noun might be a constitution of humans.
