... source is, of course, acceptance by the governed. Such acceptance is the “turtle”on which the authority of Article VII rests and, with it, the authority of the remainder of the Constitution and the ... treaties, and othergovernmental decisions that it authorizes. And if acceptance is the sourceoftheConstitution’sauthority,itcanbethesourceofauthorityforthedoctrine of precedent.But hence the more ... theory of the thing referred to over its conventional definition, or its definition overits exemplars. The priority relation will vary with the provision because the intent will vary. If the authors...