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The US wrote the German constitution. We should just drop any clauses that are Germany-specific (the ones about reunification and so on) and adopt it wholesale

• chki 5y ago
  No, the US did not write the German constitution. It was written by German politicians and lawyers. The Allied forces definitely had an influence on the constitution and requested certain things to be in the constitution (human rights, federalism). But the constitution is definitely a properly "self-made" document (building on existing constitutions in other democratic states and the Weimarer Reichsverfassung). Edit: also, it would be absolutely impossible to "simply take the German constitution and apply it to the US". To somebody who knows a bit about constitutional law that's like saying "the computer isn't working, let's just use this bicycle instead."
• carschno 5y ago
  How do you come to that assumption? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentarischer_Rat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentarischer_Rat
• inglor_cz 5y ago
  Germans wrote their own Grundgesetz, it only had to be approved by the Allies. Are you possibly confusing Germany and Japan? Japanese constitution was mostly written by Americans, though with some review and input from the Japanese, and with a lot of respect to the previous Meiji constitution.