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0 pointszeroonetwothree5mo ago0 comments

France has had something like 16 constitutions since 1791. I think I’ll take the US model.

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Which has 27 merged PRs in its git repository.

Which is basically a cut-and-paste of the British constitutional model of the 1780s, but with an elected King George III and upper house. Presidents are just elected kings. The modern parliamentary model is much better.

rsynnott5mo ago

This is a pretty common model for countries which became independent of the UK; Ireland did more or less the same copy-paste job, but in the 1920s, so ended up with a _way_ weaker president than in the US model (the Irish presidency is more or less a standin for a constitutional monarch, with ~no real powers) and upper house, and stronger lower house.

simonh5mo ago

Good point, and I think the fact that most commonwealth countries adopted more recent and therefore more modern iterations of the british model is a good thing.

In comparison the US system seems hopelessly outdated, and even riven with the many of the same problems we had during the George III mad king era, except we managed to move on.

nautilius5mo ago

Sure, stick to the Model T, why not. It had wheels and seats, so there's that.

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rzzzt5mo ago

Which has 27 merged PRs in its git repository.

simonh5mo ago

rsynnott5mo ago

simonh5mo ago

Good point, and I think the fact that most commonwealth countries adopted more recent and therefore more modern iterations of the british model is a good thing.

In comparison the US system seems hopelessly outdated, and even riven with the many of the same problems we had during the George III mad king era, except we managed to move on.

nautilius5mo ago

Sure, stick to the Model T, why not. It had wheels and seats, so there's that.

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