A Different United States

[LittleSpeer]

What would America be like if on his first trip to Europe when he was 18, Benjamin Franklin had picked up the works of Thomas Hobbs and was fixated on the idea. Hobbs believed that only a Absolute Monarchy could control the people. Also what if Franklin had corrupted the other founding fathers with these ideas on the fact that England's government didn't work because of the ocean between them. Could America have still been founded on the principle of FREEDOM....just from the British. If it could have or the ASB's helped, how would this American Monarchy have played out over the years.

 

[Solomaxwell6]

What would America be like if on his first trip to Europe when he was 18, Benjamin Franklin had picked up the works of Thomas Hobbs and was fixated on the idea. Hobbs believed that only a Absolute Monarchy could control the people. Also what if Franklin had corrupted the other founding fathers with these ideas on the fact that England's government didn't work because of the ocean between them. Could America have still been founded on the principle of FREEDOM....just from the British. If it could have or the ASB's helped, how would this American Monarchy have played out over the years.

I can see America becoming a constitutional monarchy, but not really an absolute one; remember, the founding fathers were pissed off because they had no representation. Having an absolute monarch still has that problem.

If it became an absolute monarchy via ASBs, well... Check out any of the dozens of TLs already made on the subject.

 

[LittleSpeer]

thats one of the main things i wanted to know, if it could happen and that question is now answered

 

[Jaded_Railman]

Not really. The institutions and language of what the American rebels were fighting for came from philosophers like John Locke, but the liberty and representation they fought for was something from their own experiences and up-bringing. A Constitutional monarchy is mildly possible, but far, far less so than a Republic, considering a lot of the public media around the war was based around anti-monarchism (ex. Common Sense and the like).

 

[Solomaxwell6]

Not really. The institutions and language of what the American rebels were fighting for came from philosophers like John Locke, but the liberty and representation they fought for was something from their own experiences and up-bringing. A Constitutional monarchy is mildly possible, but far, far less so than a Republic, considering a lot of the public media around the war was based around anti-monarchism (ex. Common Sense and the like).

Mildly possible, yes, but it is possible. Throw in some butterflies, and it could definitely happen.