Reply #29: Surely that's been done ...

[RoyGBiv]

... although I admit I cannot think of an example off the top of my head. I too read a lot of alternate history.

One of the fanciful scenarios I gamed out (as one among several people) involved the original 13 colonies maintaining the AoC going into the era of the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic wars. That is, all else remains equal save the governing foundations of the American States. I did this in the context of imagining alterations to the timeline that led to the Civil War. The basic conclusion was that the Civil War never happens, but the United States as we know it never forms. We continue on as essentially two separate demi-nations (New England and everything else) each effectively subservient to a European benefactor. And then that gets carved up pretty severely during and after the French Revolution.

But of course, that's just one way of looking at it.