This chapter builds on the analysis in Chapter 6 and assesses further preconditions for the stabilization of democracy after 1945. Here it focuses on the domestic apparatus of constitutional democracy, arguing that post-1945 systems separated their constitutions from war because they developed increasingly universal welfare states which served to balance the effects of constitutional integration and to soften extreme internal conflicts. It attaches this analysis to a theory of individual integration, stating that modern democracy began with processes of social integration released by warfare and it was only as these processes were directed towards welfare provisions that states were reasonably stable (sovereign). It gives particular weight to education policies in post-1945 welfare democracies.