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I can't say this with any certainty or with any hard facts to back me up, but my instincts say that if the Romans turned away from bathing their cities may have shrunk even faster. That would open a lot of butterflies, at best.

I assume by March, you meant a few weeks earlier. Would that have made much of a difference? Though I could accept that a President Johnson governing while Lee was still in the field could worry Congress. As for the rest, I find them to be too specific for an Amendment and way too specific...

Because the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire

The Ottomans. I would give a second vote to the HRE as the argument could be made that Charlemagne was crowned because a woman occupied the throne in Constantinople and the West (or at least the Pope) saw a sede vacante. But the Ottiomans conquered the last outpost of the Empire and the Sultan...

It wasn't just Lincoln they were "afraid" of. It was the entire Republican Party and its growing control. The Southern Hotheads simply didn't want to play ball anymore once they felt that they could no longer write all the rules and pick all of the referees. A coup wouldn't solve the problem...

The Earl of Warwick was not Richard III's heir. John de la Pole, the Earl of Lincoln was Richard's designated successor and his nephew (sister's son). The Earl of Warwick as the son of an attained traitor had no succession rights. The son of the king's sister did. Not that any of that...

The line of succession in 1689 would have been the infant James Stuart, the Princess of Orange, Anne Stuart, the Prince of Orange. William's army certainly helped "elevate" his cause. Future legislation recognized his 'ordinary' position though: any children he had with a wife other than Mary II...

Depends on what point he dies. Is there already a wave towards 9 states and implementation? Or do Anti-Federalists convince five or more states to reject or at least slow down ratification because of the uncertainty over who would be president?

Ignoring butterflies, why would the U.S. give away land on the North American that it has controlled for a century and a half to China? The U.S. is not the U.K. of 1997. This is not a city. There would be thousands if not millions of American citizens living there, not a city full of...

I would say the easiest would be the Greeks capturing Constantinople in 1920. Rename the country and move the capital. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the Greeks consider calling themselves the Roman Empire after the 1820 Revolution?

How does one use a currency for a country that has no territory?

An unreformed House of Commons could, in theory, evolve into a consultative body like the OTL Lords if reforms never really took place. The problem is that Commons gained at least theoretical supremacy long before the Great Reform and the Lords would still all inherit their seats or be appointed...

Instead of burning "witches," I could see a lord holding them in strategic reserve and using them (once) to scare an enemy city or army into surrendering/running away.

Tudor England? Byzantium? Alabama? Isn't that pretty much what the Roman Senate did for the Consuls? I will admit that I might find things interesting (though not necessarily good) for an actual government to work with lobbyist-politicians lobbying a nonpartisan and apolitical "jury" to...

Except when the Finance Ministry breaks down into a fist fight between the Supply Side Economists and the Non-Supply Side Economists. And when the Justice Department breaks down over disagreements between Strict and Loose Constructionists. Technocracy might work if their is a democratic way...

Please tell me you are not replying to my post about lower levels of government choosing higher levels. That would just be sad. What does she think she is supposed to do on Election Day? Nah, high school elections are all about who has most friends come out to vote for them. And voting...

I've always found the Dutch Republic's government to be somewhat bizarre (if I understand it right, which I am not sure I do), especially when they managed to run a fair sized empire. Every city council set delegates to the States-Provincial. Each of th States-Provincial sent delegates to the...

Fascinating... I though Krampus was something that American Dad just made up, like Roger's species, or the idea that the CIA can actually achieve anything.

Actually I believe it would be impossible to arrest the president. If a real life president was accused of murder, I think one of two things would happen. Either he would resign to "defend himself from the charges" (or more likely to prevent the other party from winning a landslide election on...

Texan Civil War between Unionists and Secessionists. It would simply take too long for reinforcements to arrive from the North and there were too many secessionists to stop even if Houston made himself into a dictator. Of course a Civil War like that could play out somewhat differently. How...