The USA is proud to have the oldest and longest-standing written constitution. The fact it hasn't been rewriteen in a long time help explain why there's still an electoral college, slavery for prisoners (13th amendements), and weak regulation of campaign finance.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oldest active constitution is San Marino.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

My point is having a very old constitution isn't much of a boast if keeping it as-is causes political issues.

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Presumably what the other commenter was referring to is the US having the oldest codified constitution

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which is honestly meaningless but very convenient for US narrations. There were also older de facto constitutions, which are usually forgotten like the Henrician Articles of P-L Commonwealth. US constitution is famous because it was the one which was loudly proclaimed and imitated later.

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Ok 👍