Why does all the "nation building" around the world by the United States never result in a US style constitution, but seemingly inevitably in something closer to the German one?
I mean, Americans always talk about their Constitution's supremacy, but they never want to give it to others (not even to Puerto Rico).
> Why does all the "nation building" around the world by the United States never result in a US style constitution, but seemingly inevitably in something closer to the German one?
Then again, US nation building tends to be an abysmal failure (though, tbf, constitutional structure is not high on the list of defensible reasons for that.)
> The nation building after WW2 for Germany & Japan worked out rather well.
The US took exquisite care after WWII, to the point of sharply limiting things like denazification, to preserve civic and administrative infrastructure of the relatively advanced states it occupied to avoid having to nation-build in Germany and Japan.
Well, in Germany we saw what happened when one of the "committee" members decided unilaterally to run East Germany a bit differently. Each of the 4 powers ran their zone as they saw fit.
Besides, what committee ran Japan? McArthur ran it as he saw fit.
The constitutions the US imposed on Germany and Japan we're talking about, which are very different from the US. No unlimited access to firearms and hate speech, for obvious reasons.
I mean, Americans always talk about their Constitution's supremacy, but they never want to give it to others (not even to Puerto Rico).