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At the time of the authorship of the American Constitution, the practice of having a codified constitution was still rather new and uncommon, (IIRC, the only other nation to have a proper codified constitution at the time was Poland).

So what if the nascient United States decides never codify its constitution? There can still be a convention, and it can still come up with the same basic ideas, but there's no big piece of paper with all 'the rules' written down and solidified, and, crucially, no Congress can be bound by a previous one and no law is less repealable than another.

Would American democracy be so stable if this were the case?
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