While ethics and ethical practices vary across time and space, the truth across time and space is that ethics cannot exist without some kind of system. In politics, we refer to such a system as "the regime." And every regime always has a "constitution." Whether written or unwritten, constitutions lay out the very basis of all regimes

 

 

And now here's the question: what's the relationship between the Illinois constitution and the ethics regime outlined in last week's discussion?