I recently watched a video of AlternateHistoryHub, in which he explained how would be a United States of America with a King, and despite I agreed in certains aspects of the politics, I consider the YouTuber's POV kind of pessimistic. (Below I would leave the video link)
His view is that the mere concept of an American monarchy would be chaotic and the monarchy, should exactly replicate the system that the europeans held by the time; a hereditary "absolute" system. Despite I agree that it would be hypocritical that the americans who waged years of war for "liberty" against the English, must now serve a new king, that came literally from a completely smallfolk' military american family. I would also add that by the time, as Cody said, having a monarch that came from literally nowhere would tarnish the reputation of the contemporary monarchies of the time, which were considered of heavenly rule, an authority which could be only granted by the church and God itself. Also the fact that the congress should grant Washington the title of king, is also hypocritical in certain aspects, taking in consideration that Washington was also a very humble man.
But now I'm going with my point of view; which could obviously change depending of the facts which I consider correct or not.
First, the mere concept of an American monarchy, is a revolution itself. I don't consider that an American monarchy would be one of authoritarian rule, as depicted in the video. Washington, would never adopt a stance of absolutism and authoritarianism, and he wouldn't recreate the same system that Europe had by the time.
In my opinion, to avoid this same system that in fact, caused the American revolution, he would reinvent the concept of monarchy in America. The title of king would be instead, the same than a president, but for life. Hereditary monarchy would be likely banned, with something similar to a national election for King being held in the United "Kingdom" in order to maintain a certain level of democracy in the country; so a possible elective monarchy system would be held, with members of House of Washington, or any other regional houses with promising and actually competent candidates, being able of participate in this election. The position of Prime Minister would be likely created, in order to reduce the power of the monarch in certain political aspects, but the King would likely have the same powers that OTL POTUS holds.
After George's death, I doubt that a random would be elected as King; instead it could be any of the OTL successors of Washington, since they would likely become barons and counts of their own lands (in a ceremonial level, more than administrative, of course) and would consequently win the Royal Elections.
Europe would initially have a bittersweet relation with America, for the same fact that their monarchies are "legitimate" and American isn't. That would obviously change with the course of the years, with America economically prospering as they did IOTL while sharing their constitutional and democratic thoughts to the rest of America and the world.
I lack of a concise opinion about the people's reaction if a monarchy is established, but as it happened during the AR, it would be very mixed.
This is only a brief review of the video, and my view of how would this monarchy be using my own logic and common sense.
His view is that the mere concept of an American monarchy would be chaotic and the monarchy, should exactly replicate the system that the europeans held by the time; a hereditary "absolute" system. Despite I agree that it would be hypocritical that the americans who waged years of war for "liberty" against the English, must now serve a new king, that came literally from a completely smallfolk' military american family. I would also add that by the time, as Cody said, having a monarch that came from literally nowhere would tarnish the reputation of the contemporary monarchies of the time, which were considered of heavenly rule, an authority which could be only granted by the church and God itself. Also the fact that the congress should grant Washington the title of king, is also hypocritical in certain aspects, taking in consideration that Washington was also a very humble man.
But now I'm going with my point of view; which could obviously change depending of the facts which I consider correct or not.
First, the mere concept of an American monarchy, is a revolution itself. I don't consider that an American monarchy would be one of authoritarian rule, as depicted in the video. Washington, would never adopt a stance of absolutism and authoritarianism, and he wouldn't recreate the same system that Europe had by the time.
In my opinion, to avoid this same system that in fact, caused the American revolution, he would reinvent the concept of monarchy in America. The title of king would be instead, the same than a president, but for life. Hereditary monarchy would be likely banned, with something similar to a national election for King being held in the United "Kingdom" in order to maintain a certain level of democracy in the country; so a possible elective monarchy system would be held, with members of House of Washington, or any other regional houses with promising and actually competent candidates, being able of participate in this election. The position of Prime Minister would be likely created, in order to reduce the power of the monarch in certain political aspects, but the King would likely have the same powers that OTL POTUS holds.
After George's death, I doubt that a random would be elected as King; instead it could be any of the OTL successors of Washington, since they would likely become barons and counts of their own lands (in a ceremonial level, more than administrative, of course) and would consequently win the Royal Elections.
Europe would initially have a bittersweet relation with America, for the same fact that their monarchies are "legitimate" and American isn't. That would obviously change with the course of the years, with America economically prospering as they did IOTL while sharing their constitutional and democratic thoughts to the rest of America and the world.
I lack of a concise opinion about the people's reaction if a monarchy is established, but as it happened during the AR, it would be very mixed.
This is only a brief review of the video, and my view of how would this monarchy be using my own logic and common sense.