alt Hacker News> What other gov’t during the same time period has lasted as long or longer (none that I am aware of), let alone has produced prosperity, etc. to the same extent?
The constitutional system of the United Kingdom is over 1000 years old.
> What other gov’t during the same time period has lasted as long or longer (none that I am aware of), let alone has produced prosperity, etc. to the same extent?
The constitutional system of the United Kingdom is over 1000 years old.
There is no plausible entity arising from that arrangement that one could refer that has survived even 1/10th of that time intact. Not even counting the devolving of numerous other additional territories.
Including the Sovereign, or Parliament.
It has kept the title, but so has France and how many Republics are they on now?