For holiday reading, and a little light entertainment, the influence of Norman French, as practiced and spoken in the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, on the development of the British Constitution can be evidenced in the Statute of Westminster of 1275 AD.

The English translation is perhaps a little less ingenuous, as it was the serf's language at the time!

It is a bit steep to hear some say that the Bailiwicks are not, at their roots,  "democratic", although the scope of the elections referred to were probably not wide at all .....

Please see our Resources page, where you will find the Statute of Westminster, The First (1275).