Maybe you can see it mirrored in civil vs. common law? My working theory is that peoples used to Napoleon’s style of law are much more comfortable handing over

Maybe you can see it mirrored in civil vs. common law? My working theory is that peoples used to Napoleon’s style of law are much more comfortable handing over authority to a centralized organ rather than a book. It may also have to do with carholicism (central organ) vs. evangelicism (book). Personally as a (catholically raised) Swiss I do prefer the former (even with Swiss culture being rather anti-authoritarian historically) as it has more failsaves against the bad parts of unchangeable books - I rather trust that people can be talked to when necessary than someone having come up with the perfect set of rules in advance.