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  1. AHC: Direct Elections for US President included in the post-Civil War Amendments

    There was no way to elect the president directly before the Civil War. Not only would it have been a technical challenge but the absence of the 3/5ths clause would have underrepresented slave states (well, it'd have represented them fairly, which they'd have taken as an outrage snd possibly a...

  2. New Union Treaty AHC

    A topical challenge, a post - Soviet Union that includes at least the three Slavic republics. As drafted, the OTL Treaty wasn't going anywhere so the POD can go all the way back to the choice of Gorbachev as General Secretary. For additional points, create a New Union that includes all but the...

  3. DBWI: No Harry Lee

    Would there have been an Imperial Parliament without PM Harry Lee? His transformation of the Imperial Conference from a largely powerless talking shop into the most influential legislative body in the world would have been impressive anyway, but that a non-white man from east of Suez...

  4. AHC: British Aristocracy survives Democracy

    Disclaimer: Entertainment about English country estates and the like have created a nostalgia for an age that wasn't too lovely for the vast majority of those who experienced it. That said, with a POD after the Great Reform Act, how can that world survive the rise of mass democracy?

  5. AHC: Plural Executive

    The Head of State of a country is usually one person. Other than Switzerland and a brief period of Uruguayan history, countries have tended to have a single occupant in the office. With a POD after the 1848 Swiss Constitution, your challenge is to make the plural executive more widespread.

  6. Finlandization v. 2.0

    A couple years ago I posted a what-if about a fully Finlandized Eastern Europe which went nowhere. Here are some thoughts on what it might look like. In countries from Poland to Bulgaria there is an understanding that local Communist parties end up in the ruling coalition even if they aren't...

  7. Regional Planning WI

    The US has generally had very weak regional/metropolitan government structures since the end of the 19th century. For good or ill, both the creation and abolition of the London County Council/Assembly would be unlikely and it's hard to imaging a state attempting something like the Toronto...

  8. AHC: Swap Corsica and Sardinia

    The relative fates of Sardinia and Corsica have always struck me as strange since linguistically Corsica is part of the Italian dialectical continuum and Sardinian is an entirely different branch of the Romance languages. So, make Corsica part of a unified Italy and Sardinia either independent...

  9. Decolonization Question

    Is independence the only route to self-determination? Would real, meaningful internal self-government in the colonies have allowed the European powers to keep their overseas possessions in the post-WWII period? In general, the colonial powers took desultory steps toward letting their colonies...

  10. WI: Middle Ground, Frankfurt, 1848

    Based on a post I made here. Neither Austria nor Prussia would be too pleased to see the other at the head of the new German Empire proposed by the Frankfurt Assembly but what if they decided to make a show of conceding to the 'will of the people' (not that either King or Emperor cares much...

  11. AHC: More Boroughs!

    Across the world, most large major cities have a lower tier of government. AFAIK, New York and its boroughs are unique in the United States. So, with a POD after the amalgamation of New York in 1898, have more borough governments in the US.

  12. EATO: A Pacific Alliance

    WI the US establishes an equivalent of NATO in East Asia? I guess the POD would have to be in 1945 since the Japanese constitution would need to parallel the German Basic Law (with restrictions on the role of the military but not the full-fledged pacifism which it incorporated in OTL). I'm...

  13. Finlands for Everyone!

    With a POD after the beginning of WWII, is it possible for Stalin to Finlandize all of Eastern Europe rather than establishing subservient Communist governments? I presume transit and possibly basing rights would be required since East Germany will still be occupied. A further WI, might the West...

  14. WI: No American Pacific

    I posted this idea here but I thought I'd make it its own thread. What if the US never gets any Pacific territory? e.g. 19th Century British Sandwich Islands, Spanish-American conflict (if and when it happens) is limited to the Caribbean etc. Germany is often brought into these scenarios but I...

  15. Yet Another Monarchywank

    With a POD no earlier than the 1815 Congress of Vienna, make all the nations of Europe* constitutional monarchies today. Revolutions are permtted as long as they are followed by restorations. Bonus points if Austria-Hungary survives. I'm aware that there are several monarchists here so, if...
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