Why America's Founders Almost Built a Monarchy?

Most of us grow up with a simple story about the American presidency. The colonists fought a long war to get rid of a king, so whatever they built afterward had to be the opposite of one. That is the version most people carry around. The question I want to work through is whether it actually holds up. When the founders sat down to design the office, how close to a monarchy did they come, and did they mean to come that close. Start with the general picture, because it makes the specific case easier to read. When a country throws off a king, you would expect the winners to run as far from kingship as they can. Sometimes they do. What is easy to forget is that in the seventeen eighties the line between a monarchy and a republic was not as clean as we treat it now. Educated people then knew that a head of state could be chosen rather than born, and that one government could carry pieces of both forms at the same time. So the founders were not working with our tidy split between king and president. They were working with a whole range of options in between. That blurred line is a subject in itself. I made a separate video on the crowned republics of today, the monarchies bound so tightly by law that they run like a republic with a king sitting on top, and it pairs directly with this one, because both come down to the same question, which is where real power sits once you stop trusting the labels. Keep that picture in mind, because the founders land on the same ground coming the other way. Want to support TMC on YouTube? Go here:    / @themonarchistchannel   Want to support TMC on Patreon? Go here:   / the_monarchist_channel   👑The Monarchist Channel is exploring the history of monarchies as well as status of monarchism in the World today. This is a pan-monarchist channel, which means it does not focus on one country or one royal family or one monarchial tradition alone but on the world-wide monarchist cause. On this channel we will refrain from taking sides in major dynastic disputes, because the hope is to unite monarchists rather than divide them. In France, for example, the monarchist cause has long been bitterly divided between the supporters of the “Legitimists”, “Orleanists” and “Bonapartists”. We don't do that here. I also invite non-monarchists for a healthy and open-minded debate. Enjoy the channel and I look forward to speaking to you in the comment section! #Monarchy #Monarchism