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Great Britain is specifically why I only called the US one of the oldest. You guys have barely modified your framework since what, the battle of Hastings or some shit around 1200 when the Magna Carta was written?
Yeah, that shit has lasted far longer than it ever should have to be quite honest. I can only chalk that up to Brits and their stiff upper lip. Y'all don't seem to like upsetting the tea cart.
If you read The Constitution of the Six Nations, you'll see why I said they had a bit more influence than The Magna Carta, and Commonwealth Law. After all only 2 of the colonies remained commonwealths to the present day, and only 3 in the last century.
Almost the only thing we didn't directly rip from their constitution, that is in their constitution, was the concept that "all laws passed must directly benefit all children of the next 7 generations of unborn children."
I'm not British.
I don't see that at all. This Constitution of the Six Nations has a lot of ceremony in it, but in terms of actual procedures it has things like:
There's nothing about the US system where unanimity is required.
Then there's bits about inheriting rights to lordship, exactly the kinds of things the Americans were trying to get away from:
Then there's bits about how people need to inform the lords of their nation if they wish to emigrate. Or how they need to supply a string of shells if they want to be adopted into a clan.
Not sure what you're seeing in there that had any influence on the US constitution or laws.