Faraday Cage
Inspired by the other threads on the subject.
POD: Common Sense is never published (Thomas Paine is hit by a carriage shortly before he would of seen it done).
Thomas Jefferson ends up anonymously writing the pamphlet that would unite the colonies into organized revolution, but they contain less clear criticisms of monarchy and aristocracy and are more specific to Britain and kinder to the influence of English law.
Besides a similar but not quite the same American Revolution, this results in General Washington being granted a hazy executive status during the chaotic Confederation days. When the Articles of Federation are finally written they include both Congress, Senate, and Imperator: creating precedent for non-hereditary elected emperors and lesser powers, such as consuls; as well as the precedents for amendments concerning impeachment and abdication.
This system would involve the Senate electing, appointing, and vetting appointments for many positions. Some would be limited term appointments, others would be lifelong (less abdication or impeachment) stations of merit. In return much of the bureaucratic authority not vested in the executives so selected by the Senate would instead fall to the Congress (the lower house of the Federal Assembly) rather than the indirectly powerful Senate.
The United States of America, better known as the Federal Empire, is not particularly more expansionist or successfully so than OTL (just different in what it gains, not more successful particularly).
And the precedent of elected nobility certainly affects the French Revolution and thus European history onward after.
POD: Common Sense is never published (Thomas Paine is hit by a carriage shortly before he would of seen it done).
Thomas Jefferson ends up anonymously writing the pamphlet that would unite the colonies into organized revolution, but they contain less clear criticisms of monarchy and aristocracy and are more specific to Britain and kinder to the influence of English law.
Besides a similar but not quite the same American Revolution, this results in General Washington being granted a hazy executive status during the chaotic Confederation days. When the Articles of Federation are finally written they include both Congress, Senate, and Imperator: creating precedent for non-hereditary elected emperors and lesser powers, such as consuls; as well as the precedents for amendments concerning impeachment and abdication.
This system would involve the Senate electing, appointing, and vetting appointments for many positions. Some would be limited term appointments, others would be lifelong (less abdication or impeachment) stations of merit. In return much of the bureaucratic authority not vested in the executives so selected by the Senate would instead fall to the Congress (the lower house of the Federal Assembly) rather than the indirectly powerful Senate.
The United States of America, better known as the Federal Empire, is not particularly more expansionist or successfully so than OTL (just different in what it gains, not more successful particularly).
And the precedent of elected nobility certainly affects the French Revolution and thus European history onward after.
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