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Dear Academy, I am not an American, but I am very interested in the Constitution of the United States of America, which I consider the most perfect constitution in the world. I know that the constitution itself came about after a long debate by your Founding Fathers who debated it in the Federal Papers. Do you think that the American presidential system can be applied in Europe? Hypothetically speaking, if a country has a long history in Europe since the Middle Ages with kings and emperors, as well as a communist past, along with continental law as a legal system, do you think it is possible for one such country in Europe to switch to the Anglo-Saxon legal system and implement the American presidential system? I mean as close as possible. Do you think that such a change would be fatal for such a country in terms of drastic changes and would it diminish the reputation of that country in the eyes of America that the same system is used in Europe?
- European nations have experimented with many political systems. One might argue that changing the structure would destabilize because parties are not structured in the appropriate ways, but again, this does not seem to be to be horribly destabilizing.
