constitution

In OTL, only two US states have been formed from within existing states: Maine and West Virginia. However, there've been many, many more proposed state splits, from New York City to southern Oregon to eastern Tennessee to many more I haven't listed here. Each of these movements could have...

In a recent DBWI I created the character of Daniel Blaine Williams I as the hero of the ARW who later helped set up the Triune Executive Office of the United States. Assuming such an office is created I have some queries: Roles What exactly would it be called? Are the roles of the office...

What if the Republicans, arguing that the main failure of the 1787 Constitution was the fact it didn't prevent the civil war, decided to call a Second Constitutional Convention after the US Civil War to create a new constitution? What would said constitution look like? Would it feature any major...

Part 1: The Constitution is Kill “It can not be known whether or not John Hancock’s presence at the Massachusetts ratification convention would have resulted in ratification by Massachusetts and thus a probable success of the Constitution. However, an aspiring alternate history author could...

Thanks to @SargentHawk for making the titlecard! Our Fallen Heroes: The Story of an Alternate America In 1783, the United States of America was still young, fresh out of a victory in the Revolutionary War. However, in that short two year span, the fledgling nation had already been tested. The...

The American constitution has been the framework of its government for the entire existence, being amended only 17 times(not counting the bill of rights). What kind of differences could have plausibly been worked into the constitution that would have had big impacts of the balance of power...

Pretty much what I wrote above. Two humble questions: What did the Founding Fathers of the United States against parties and partisan divisions within the US? And why didn't it work?

The challenge is to destroy the government based off of the American constitution. This could mean anything from the peaceful adoption of a new document, a coup, a dissolution of the union, or anything else that prevents it from governing anything. It can take place any time from the...

Suppose George Washington gets shot in the head by a disgruntled loyalist at the end of the American Indelendence War, and the newborn american state (or states) finds itself without a proper unifying figure. Or some similar PoD. The Constitution is never written, and the states remain still...

I've become interested in problems with the U.S. Constitution. We (humanity) have now had a few centuries of experience with writing constitutions since this great experiment, and I was wondering what people think could have been done better. For instance, I think most would agree that direct...