2006 (UTC) 
 :::As a non-American I think it is right to give special mention to the U.S. constitution when talking about constitutions generally. It may not be the oldest, but it is, if not the oldest, then certainly one of the oldest national constitutions which continues largely in its original form.  Talk about the XII Tables, the Codex Hammurabi, the tenents of Islam and the Magna Carta are all very well, but none of those documents really closely resemble the organisation of power in a modern nation state.  Similarly, although it borrowed many ideas from European thinking, such as the separation of powers, it incorporated them into its national constitution before any of the European states did.  The U.S. constitution also holds a unique level of interest because of the development of the U.S. nation state over the 250 years subsequent to its birth, rather than (in other countries) the adoption of a constitution by an existing developed nation state.  I think it is quite natural for this article to lay more emphasis on the U.S constitution than other countries constitutions just because it illustrates a number of conceptual points very well.  I'm all for pushing for a worldwide POV in articles, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.  19:18, 4 November