Complex sentence: John A Hawgood, Fred B. Rothman, and co. "Modern constitutions since 1787" (Littleton, Colorado, 1987), 171 Most of the Statuto were either copied from the French constitutional charter of 1840 or the Spanish constitution of 1812.
Split into simpler sentences: John A Hawgood, Fred B. Rothman, and co. "Modern constituions since 1787" (Littleton, colorado, 1987), 171 The document itself was not particularly original. Parts of it were copied from the French constitutional charter of 1840 and other parts were based on copies of the Spanish constitution of 1812.