![]() How did this confluence come to be? In The Gun the Ship and the Pen, a wide-ranging, beautifully written global history, Princeton historian Linda Colley tackles the first century-and-a-half of constitution-making. ![]() For example, the world’s youngest generally recognised country, South Sudan, announced its independence in 2011 by adopting a constitution on Day One. In the intervening 250 years, a written constitution has become part of the script of the nation-state. But Paoli’s act launched an era of national constitution-making that persists to this day. The experiment was short-lived and by 1769 the French had taken control of the island, which they have retained more or less ever since. The people soon ratified it, and Paoli became “general” of the Corsican Republic. He then drafted a 10-page document that he called a constitution, laying out a system of government. ![]() ![]() In 1755, a rebel leader named Pasquale Paoli successfully wrested control of the island of Corsica from the city-state of Genoa. ![]()
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