Honduras: Do Constitutions Matter?

The current crisis in Honduras suggests that substantive and procedural constitutionalism is not sufficient to block dictatorial impulses - this is not, of course, an original intuition. It has been suggested before that the fostering of liberal freedoms depends mainly on whether political groups reach an equilibrium favorable to liberal values - I am referring to the game theoretical notion of equilibrium, that is, the idea that in an equilibrium individuals have incentives to keep behaving as they do. The crisis in Honduras suggests that an equilibrium on liberal values depends on factors that are independent of the incentive structure created by a liberal constitution. Perhaps, the international rejection of the coup and the costs associated with such rejection will create incentives favoring respect for liberal freedoms in Honduras? How is it that - what Rawls and others have called - "overlapping consensus" on liberal values is achieved?