QUOTE(Tony1 @ Sun 12th July 2009, 10:30am)
The Advisory Council is unconstitutional, because it "advises" ArbCom, and ArbCom's constitution (policy) casts it as a judge of editors' behaviour.
"Unconstitutional"? You say that as if Wikipedia had a constitution. Wikipedia doesn't even have policies, in the proper sense of the word.
The ArbCom, like everyone else in Wikipedia, may do whatever it wants, as long as it can get away with it. That's the sole "constitutional principle" that governs Wikipedia.