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  1. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I could be wrong, but I think the US constitution places a much greater emphasis on the separation of legislature and executive than is common in parliamentary governments. For mine, if the goal of the process is to maintain relative representation and increase the likelihood of electing...

  2. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    A parliamentary system and a president aren't mutually exclusive, the two things that stop a third party in the US are (IMO) the combination of FPTP and the electoral college in the presidential space, and the structure of elections/appointments to the senate. Each senatorial election has only...

  3. King Theodore's Corsica

    How widespread was currency usage amongst peasantry and smallfarmers on Corsica at this time? Would they even be paying taxes in coin, or would in-kind payments still be common? Was tax collected directly from the peasantry or via notable/landowner intermediaries?

  4. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    That doesn't seem to match with current scholarship, which indicates that not only were the helots absolutely slaves, they were treated significantly worse than the slaves of other Greek polities of the era. the ACOUP blog had a series on Sparta, with a post about equality and the Spartans.

  5. The Q-BAM Improvement and Core Thread

    Weren't the Bantustans wound up in '94, rather than '90? The Apartheid regime was in place until then.

  6. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    If the Soviets haven't parked themselves as overlords of central Europe, would they still be seen as the pre-eminent threat? Unless I missed something, their last outings to date were fighting the Japanese to a standstill, the Winter War debacle, and getting warned off Romania by Italy, none of...

  7. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I don't know that a formal military alliance is going to stick around postwar in a way which echoes NATO. The Soviet threat is much less apparent when it's on the far side of the Curzon line. If it reverts back to something like the prewar Entente agreements then I think you're probably looking...

  8. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Joffre, as a high prestige ship which was laid down before the war and put on hold due to it, might be a sort of symbol of the return to normality and to France's place in the world. IIRC Alsace was intended to be build in the same slip as Joffre, so it's depended on the fate of the carrier.

  9. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    IIRC the US constitution was written when Deism was in vogue. Since then, ITTL, you've had the rise and fall of the French Revolution and the example of its intense anticlericalism, and you've also had, in America, the rise of the use of religion as a propaganda tool both in favour of and in...

  10. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I suppose there's a fine line between adding clarifications and updating language. I should qualify that I am in no way a constitutional scholar, nor am I an American, so there may be nuance that I miss. Setting aside the slavery elements, and breezing over the interstate commerce and...

  11. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I think at this point it would be relatively uncontroversial to update the language, if the constitution was being revised, as those doing so are only a couple of generations removed from the authors of the original and the language is old fashioned rather than archaic. If you look at the...

  12. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I think I agree with this. It kind of feels like the US constitution has ossified, when everyone else revisits their constitution for an update every so often. It's always been interesting to me to look at the drafted Confederate constitution, not so much for the changes that it made, but for...

  13. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    And yet Canada, Australia, New Zealand and so on have managed to also create national identities starting from essentially a blank slate, without worshipping their respective constitutions.

  14. Q&A: Most plausible English speaking Communist country(ies)?

    What?

  15. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Doesn't even need to be a garrison, looking at the incidents with US troops in Australia

  16. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Did the US have a formal fleet base outside the continental US prior to 1940? IIRC even the move from Long Beach/San Diego to Hawaii was very strongly opposed by some parties in the USN.

  17. Alternate Weapons of War thread...

    When you say not really alternate, what do you mean? As far as I'm aware Simonov commenced development of their rifle for the gas operated rifle requirement in 1931, and that would eventually result in the Simonov Automatic Rifle model 1936 being accepted for service, beating out a design from...

  18. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    It's a Simpsons reference. Groundskeeper Willie at one point goes through all the people the Scots have grudges against, including the Scots.

  19. Flag Thread IV

    I find it weird that alternate Australian flags tend to heavily feature the sporting colours and the kangaroo. What's the meaning of the wreath?

  20. King Theodore's Corsica

    There's a [3] after Francesco Salvatico Guidi which doesn't have a corresponding footnote
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