Politicians knowingly violating the constitution are just seeing how far they can bend the powers of government to their will. Shibboleth's to the constitution are performative, the document is not. At times the document enshrined racialized slavery, alcohol prohibition, and other ills. As written, punitive slavery is still legal and good. The law can grant further rights that don't exist in the constitution but it cannot violate the document. It is not the concept of the constitution that drives America, America is the constitution and very little else.