How Could've America Become an Empire?
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Take a look at ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton and this version of him from Lucky Luke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Empereur_Smith
Oh thanks!Take a look at ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton and this version of him from Lucky Luke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Empereur_Smith
There was a proposal that the Presidency would be for life (or until impeachment), which if adopted would essentially have made America into an elective monarchy. Maybe they could even choose to call their leader King or Emperor. Would that fulfil the OP?
Let's say there's some earlier unrest, and the Constitutional Convention chooses the Hamilton Plan, which proposed an elective presidency-for-life, which could easily become hereditary and eventually abolished into a monarchy.
Although they'd probably keep calling themselves President, a la Augustus, or indeed most dictators nowadays.
Yep, a lot of countries that are formally republics are de facto hereditary monarchies (like North Korea and Syria), while so called "constitutional monarchies" are de facto republics, although they glorify the oppression of earlier days.
I dunno, maybe something like DoD, or What Madness is This?, but with royalty?(BTW, you may be interested in Mumby's "Centuries of Shadow" TL-Britain went bad here instead of the U.S.)
Edit: Couldn't forget Napo's WMiT TL. A real modern-day classic, IMHO.
