AHC: Have a US state adopt a different parliamentary system

Apologies if this has been done before, I tried some keyword searches.

Basically I was thinking about the possibility of a state where the governor is more of a ceremonial role and real executive authority rests in the legislature. This could be an OTL state or an alternate one.

While I'm putting this in pre-1900, I can see some 20th century PODs as well. DC gaining statehood with a weak mayor and a strong city council, for example, and that's more likely to take place in the 20th century. If it doesn't ruffle any feathers, feel free to include any post-1900 ideas here as well.
 
"In the Southern States, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, there was a fixed type of constitution. The source of power was in the voters, limited by a property qualification. They elected a Legislature of two Houses, which had the real power during their term of office. The Legislature elected the Governor, the Governor’s Council, the Judges, the administrative officers of the State and the county officers. This form of government lasted till a comparatively late day, in Georgia till 1824, in North Carolina till 1835, in Virginia till I850, and in South Carolina till 1865..." https://books.google.com/books?id=VkQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144

To get parliamentary government in a state in the modern US, one obvious way would be for one or more Canadian provinces to be admitted to the US following a breakup of Canada after the secession of Quebec...
 

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Several states already split the votes for president could we not have that happen for congress or even state legislature?

Could a state change its voting law that the party with the largest number of state delegates elects the governor?
 
I seem to recall that towards the end of Reconstruction a number of Southern states (e.g. Texas) drastically reduced the powers of the Governor in favor of the Legislature (and, in Texas’s case, the Lieutenant Governor). If they had gone farther, you could probably see parliamentary systems down there (backed by gerrymandering to ensure that Jim Crow held true, naturally). Which could possibly lead to some sort of federal decision, by amendment, Supreme Court case (based on the Guarantee Clause, perhaps?), or maybe even legislation, to impose the gubernatorial system whenever the Civil Rights Movement comes around.
 
**waves hand in distance**
OK, so it's a weird quasi-parliamentary system rooted in older assumptions, but if we in the Ocean State could manage it already now, with some changes and reforms we could make it closer to a modern parliamentary republic, and implant the RI model for smaller states.
 
Hawaii maybe?
Something where the monarchy can't prevent annexation, but still needs to be appeased.
So the state retains a ceremonial monarch while being ruled by a prime minister and parliament.
 
Very many European Republics have Parliamentary systems. The President is ceremonial and power excercised by a Prime MInister/ Chancellor/ answerable to Parliament.

This would be Constituational in the USA
 
Until 1996 the governor of North Carolina had no veto on legislation. So they weren't far off a parliamentary system.
 
Hawaii maybe?
Something where the monarchy can't prevent annexation, but still needs to be appeased.
So the state retains a ceremonial monarch while being ruled by a prime minister and parliament.
unconstitutional though, as US constitution requires all state to be republic, not to mention US can't give rank of nobility under Article I.
Article IV said:
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
 
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