Make George Washington into a dictator/president for life and make it so that Hamilton's constitutional proposals make it so that the U.S. is made legally a dictatorship
Alternate History. Make George Washington and the rest of the presidents dictators
Nicholas Davis
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Gabriel Brooks
welp, there goes the bill of rights
James Adams
fuck dictator, people tried to give him the crown
Christian Long
I would prefer not to.
Luke Miller
The entire nations fucked and will break apart
Connor Morgan
the people literally wanted to make him king though
Nathan Edwards
If one ois writing alternati=ve history, making him "Dictator" is ore interesting -- as a magistrate under the Roman Republic, it would have fit in with the founders' fascination with the Romans, and would have maybe avoided the bad associations that "King" would bring up after a war fought to get out from under a King.
Ayden Evans
Washington was a dictator
Joseph Campbell
OK, what is your definition of "Dictator" then? Because I don't see how that follows from the facts of the Whiskey Rebellion at all.
Grayson Wilson
They're a single person with sole control over the organs of the state
Andrew Anderson
Then he was not one, by your definition, sorry. He had Congress with which to contend. One example: on December 15, 1795, the Senate administered a stinging blow to one of the nation's most distinguished "founding fathers." By a vote of 10 to 14, it rejected President George Washington's nomination of South Carolina's John Rutledge to be Chief Justice of the United States.
No "sole control" there.
Ian Brooks
The US Judiciary is independent of the organs of the state
Jayden Ward
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Nicholas Thomas
>the people literally wanted to make him king though
If Washington had even dared suggest that he should be king, he would have killed the exact reason why people held him in such high regard in the first place.
>Putting down a rebellion makes you a dictator
Landon Brooks
Another example, more minor; on August 5, the Senate refused to confirm a presidential appointee to a patronage job. Ignoring the budding concept of "senatorial courtesy," President George Washington had failed to consult with Georgia’s two senators before he nominated Benjamin Fishbourn to the post of naval officer for the Port of Savannah. One of those senators, James Gunn, favored another candidate who was a close political ally. Gunn promptly engineered the Senate rejection of Fishbourn, instituting the concept of an appointee being rejected if a Senator fro the state involved declared him "personally obnoxious.".
Ian Martinez
>>the people literally wanted to make him king though
>If Washington had even dared suggest that he should be king, he would have killed the exact reason why people held him in such high regard in the first place.
This, though in the absence of another name for a head of state or another recent model of how to eve HAVE a head of state, there was some talk of whether Washington should be styled "King," or "His Majesty."
Bentley Gray
he said no to the crown, but they did offer it to him
Jordan Butler
Even during the revolution, you could not have called Washington a dictator. He was constantly frustrated with the Continental Congress, who refused to let him promote his own subordinants without their approval. This became the core reason why Benedict Arnold switched sides, as he was tired of constantly getting passed over for promotions.
Robert Watson
Though during that period, he was perhapos closer to the old original meanoing of Dictotar than at any other time -- one promoted into a position of power during a military crisis, and all that. As you note, though, his power was much less than a traditional Roman or modern meaning of the term "Dictator."
How Julius Caesar of him.
(Ducking before outrage.)
Henry Cox
>but they did offer it to him
Who is they? There was no popular support for a new monarchy in post-revolution American. None. (Okay, maybe Hamilton and his friends but that's about it) The only Americans who wanted a king were the loyalists who would have preferred to stay attached to Britain, and they didn't want any king except King George III.
Luis Sanchez
>George Washington
1789-1799
>Dictator imprisons hundreds perhaps thousands against their will
>Alexander Hamilton
1799-1804
>Short reign but still carries out mass repression against his political enemies.
>Imprisons or executes hundreds of political dissidents, and bans foreigners via the Alien and Seditions Act.
>Thomas Jefferson
1804-1805
>Short lived presidency because he is assassinated by pro-Hamiltonian supporters for repealing Hamilton's worse excesses
>Country plunges into civil war as rebel militias spare off between the U.S. government.
>Hundreds perhaps thousands of civilians and their sympathizers are killed by rebel forces or U.S government forces as the country falls apart.
John Brooks
>John Quincy Adams leads a rag-tag rebellion and creates a Republic after all.
Grayson Butler
>John Quincy Adams becomes the next president of the reformed Republic in America. Still is declared president for life because of political instability. Rules as a harsh but fair dictator.
>Rules from 1825-1848
>Imprisons hundreds of political dissidents
>Martin Van Buren rules as president for life as well.
>1848-1860
>Reasserts the Republic and centralizes the state ironically the very reason why the country plunged into civil war
>Imprisons an estimated 1,000 political dissidents and prisoners
Bentley Carter
>the cycle of imprisonments,executions,and civil war goes on for a while
>america becomes a russia tier shithole and is usually ignored by the internation community
>until world war 1
Josiah Torres
Why?