The Founder Of Constitutionalism

Founders answers Constitutionalism. 

Poul Anderson did not just cash in on the connotations of the term, "Constitutionalism," despite recycling the word in a completely different context. Instead, it is the off-stage character, Laird, that does this. He finds a way to name Anker's empiricist philosophy "Constitutionalism" and thus appeals to disaffected North Americans for a nefarious purpose that is to be revealed later.

I spoke too soon when I suggested that it was the author who was playing tricks with words. All of this maneuvering will eventually get some human colonists onto the extra-solar planet, Rustum, but we must read on to find out how it will be done.