What makes a good Constitution?

Iceland is rewriting it's Constitution, and Freepers are full of suggestions:

misterrob thinks ours is pretty good, 'cept for a few of the Amendments, and how you interpret it:

Our Constitution is fine the way that it is (save of for a few bad amendments). If officials would follow what it says then we would be in far better shape.

kearnyirish2 thinks temperature is important:

Cold countries usually place a higher value on the independence of the individual, because there is only so much a government can do if your car is buried in a snowdrift in a valley with no cell phone reception miles from any other people. It isn’t the cold, but the availability of a safety net, that makes people dependent. Mother Nature takes no prisoners.

hopespringseternal thinks it's just the suffering:

Randomly grabbing people with no sense of reality or knowledge of the problem is only going to make the problem worse. They aren't even aware they have made that assumption.

Until several generations actually have to live cold, dark, and hungry, in disease and squalor, this assumption will reign.

VanDeKoik thinks it's extraordinary people, and God:

Good constitutions are created by extraordinary people that are divinely inspired.

That’s why there has really only been one that managed to survive(for the most part) for over 200 years.

padre35 thinks Christianity shouldn't be required, but ya gotta keep the gays away from public office somehow:

should the State impose Christianity from the Top Down with sanctions for violating Christian Principles and Morals?

I say probably not, as Christianity is best when it is purely voluntary and flows upwards and not downwards in terms of governance, [Iceland's] Lesbian PM, and I have noticed countries that embrace homosexuality do tend to go into the toilet, so the point is not lost on me, however if they are a Christian people such people in positions of Authority in a Democratic Republic, would never be elected.

Note that understandable sentences are not Constitutionally required.