PoliticsGirl: There's nothing in the Constitution that says SCOTUS is the final word on what's constitutional

[Nasruddin]

10. That's a really good question

Another question you might ask is, what problems has the Supreme Court solved, as opposed to ones it has created or amplified?

Maybe we could just do without it.

An interesting example is the German system, which has multiple supreme courts for various areas (laws, taxes) and a constitutional court that probably covers a lot of the topic area that we are concerned with in this discussion (US Supreme Court has broad mandate in many areas). The selection / management of the judicial body is also interesting to look at.

About how other countries deal with constitutions, that seems to be a complex topic. UK famously lacks a single concise document. German constitution appears longer and more complex than ours. How rigidly, or what theories, these countries use to apply their constitutions I don't know at all.