This panel is an invitation to start a public law oriented discourse about the legal concept of “constitutional identity“, which conceived here as the “identity of the constitution“. It is seen as a part of the constitution, with which the constituent people/nation can identify with as they created it in the course of constitution-making and constitutional amendment, or which the constitutional interpretation shaped. Provisions that are entrenched by eternity clauses and a multi-tier system of constitutional amendments help to locate the identity of the constitution. The panel seeks to explore who the constituent people are and how they are involved in the formation of the identity of the constitution in the Global South (Ecuador and Kenya), and it reveals how the very same legal concept of constitutional identity can be used to unify the European integration project further (a Global North phenomenon) and could become detrimental through informal constitutional change.