WI: Crispus succeeds Constantine

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Flavius Julius Crispus was the son of Constantine the Great. Like his father, he was reportedly a great soldier and tactician, well educated in the east by Christian scholars and had a wide amount of experience in governing.

Suppose Constantine doesn't have him and his wife killed in 326 and Crispus continues to be a capable Caesar until Constantine's death in 337. What I can infer is that the 340s and 350s will be more stable thanks to the influence of a well experienced and regarded Augusti that doesn't need to share as much power as his brothers/cousins did OTL.

But what else? What would policy be? And what effects on the empire would this have?
 
Flavius Julius Crispus was the son of Constantine the Great. Like his father, he was reportedly a great soldier and tactician, well educated in the east by Christian scholars and had a wide amount of experience in governing.

Suppose Constantine doesn't have him and his wife killed in 326 and Crispus continues to be a capable Caesar until Constantine's death in 337. What I can infer is that the 340s and 350s will be more stable thanks to the influence of a well experienced and regarded Augusti that doesn't need to share as much power as his brothers/cousins did OTL.

But what else? What would policy be? And what effects on the empire would this have?

Will he maintain the ban on infanticide and the financial support to parents that prevents them from selling their children to slavery? Or perhaps maintain the decree that says Jewish clergy have the same tax exemptions as Christian priests?
 
Will Crispus, being older/more experienced, feel the need to purge his extended family as his younger brothers did? Alternately, will he feel the need to marginalise and shunt aside his potentially troublesome younger (half-)brothers?
 

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Will he maintain the ban on infanticide and the financial support to parents that prevents them from selling their children to slavery? Or perhaps maintain the decree that says Jewish clergy have the same tax exemptions as Christian priests?
I can't answer that. No idea on his Religious policy.
 
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