Alexander Hamilton's supposition

In 1787 Alexander Hamilton was chosen as a delegate for the Constitutional Convention.
Early in the convention he made a speech proposing a President-for-Life. It had no effect upon the deliberations of the convention.

Suppose all the delegates would have liked Hamilton's supposition of having an elected President who would serve for life. What happens then?
 
In 1787 Alexander Hamilton was chosen as a delegate for the Constitutional Convention.
Early in the convention he made a speech proposing a President-for-Life. It had no effect upon the deliberations of the convention.

Suppose all the delegates would have liked Hamilton's supposition of having an elected President who would serve for life. What happens then?

Then the Constitution is never ratified?
Someone finds out what the delegates were smoking, and makes a fortune selling it?
The presidency is then given powers approximately equivalent to that of OTL's Germany and Israel?

Seriously. People had a HUGE problem with the amount of centralizing needed to run an efficient federal government. No way would they give a monarch (which is what we're talking about, no matter what the name) any real power.
 

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ISuppose all the delegates would have liked Hamilton's supposition of having an elected President who would serve for life. What happens then?

First, this would never have happened in a million years.

Second, even if it had happened due to ASB intervention, the states would have decisively rejected the Constitution at the ratifying conventions.
 
In his convention notes, Madison hints that Hamilton was deliberately suggesting something extreme that he knew no one would support just to make the idea of a president elected for a term of years seem more reasonable by comparison.
 
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