As other commentors pointed out: The fundamentals of German bureaucracy are way older than 1949. Americans seem to have a special relation to their constitutio

As other commentors pointed out: The fundamentals of German bureaucracy are way older than 1949. Americans seem to have a special relation to their constitution, but in practice you interface with more detailed areas of the law much more often. The civil code of Germany [0] is from 1881 and even then was not written from scratch, but contains Prussian laws etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerliches_Gesetzbuch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgerliches_Gesetzbuch