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Originally posted by: Bossk
And to get my two cents in on RRS's question... since he's asking it, I'm guessing Poland.
Bingo, my man - you knew too well there had to be a catch.
We celebrate the Constitution Day on May the 3rd. It was in 1791, so the French were third, introducing their document few months after us.
painting by Jan Matejko, 1891
The problem was that our dear neighbours, Prussia(Germany), Russia and Austria, which were absolutistic monarchies then, didn't want a mini-USA next to their borders that could spread the ideas of freedom and liberal policies. So instead of arguing with each other, they made a deal and ganged up on us, kicking us out of the world's playground for 123 years...
(England should be out of the count, as they have developed their law codex over the centuries, and have no written constitution, unlike us or USians. So we can call them "constitutional monarchy" but a bit in a different way.)