Whilst there's a bunch of threads on the site about constitutions, I've yet to find one on this subject:
"WI: most countries didn't have a written constitution?"
That doesn't mean that countries can't have constitutions, of course, they just have to be uncommon.
(1) What sort of POD would be required to do this? The later the better, ideally. Does the French Revolution have to be averted? Does the US have to fail? Do the Revolutions of 1830/1848 have to be squashed?
(2) What suitable alternatives are there? Can just codifying the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen into law work, along with expanding the franchise? Or just going for the very British "it just works" option?
I am aware that various countries had constitutions and sort-of-constitutions prior to the US and (first) French constitutions - e.g. the Netherlands, Sweden, England/Britain during the Protectorate Era.
"WI: most countries didn't have a written constitution?"
That doesn't mean that countries can't have constitutions, of course, they just have to be uncommon.
(1) What sort of POD would be required to do this? The later the better, ideally. Does the French Revolution have to be averted? Does the US have to fail? Do the Revolutions of 1830/1848 have to be squashed?
(2) What suitable alternatives are there? Can just codifying the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen into law work, along with expanding the franchise? Or just going for the very British "it just works" option?
I am aware that various countries had constitutions and sort-of-constitutions prior to the US and (first) French constitutions - e.g. the Netherlands, Sweden, England/Britain during the Protectorate Era.