You can run a dictatorship or a monarchy/tyranny on such a basis, but not a civil society or republic.
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We still have The Republic of Texas Constitution of 1845. Don’t say it’ outdated. It’s not as “old” as the Constitution of the United States.
Forget outdated. It's null and void. It's the legal equivalent of the Articles of Confederation that bound the U.S. states between 1781 and 1789 when it was replaced with the United States Constitution. The 1845 became null and void when it was replaced by the constitution of 1861. Which was replaced by the constitution of 1866, which was replaced by the constitution 1869, which itself was replaced with the current constitution in 1876. Sorry, the most recent constitution is the binding one, and there is just no getting around that.
Actually, it was replaced by the 1876 Constitution because the earlier constitution was implemented when Texas swore allegiance to the Confederacy—basically, it was a “Confederate Constitution,” enacted when Texas joined the Confederacy. When the Confederacy lost then Texas needed a new constitution to re-join the Union.
Immediately after the Civil War, a new constitution was imposed on Texas when the post-war state military commander intervened at the state constitutional convention to force Gov E.J. Davis, democrat, to reject slavery and accept Republican demands for emancipation.
For most white, ex-confederate Texans, the new constitution represented defeat and humiliation, was regarded as imposed by outside forces, i.e., Radical Republicans. (Radical in the sense they wanted immediate emancipation, not a gradual implementation).
When Democrats gained control of state government in 1872 and 1873, their first priority became to draft a new constitution.
By the fall of 1875, 90 Texans gathered in Austin to finalize a new constitution for the state.
The largest group of delegates at the convention were known as the Grange, an organization of farmers, committed to a slogan of “retrenchment and reform” for state government.
The new constitution favored a restrictive constitution of great length; they returned to the tradition of Jacksonian democracy, reinstating the long ballot and shortening the terms of office for elected officials.