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The War Of The United States

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It is fair to refer to the United States as the stray seed of Great Britain’s Earlier Empire, yet even with this relationship their executive leaderships and institutions are vastly different. Like an abused child, the United States vowed to, and successfully created a system of governing completely different from the monarch they were previously ruled under, giving birth to a presidential system that would become the leading example of political democracy.
On July 4th, 1776 the thirteen original American Colonies Declared Independence from Great Britain’s Empire a year into the Revolutionary war of 1775-1783. With Victory, the founding fathers of the United States drafted a system in which the American people had the power and responsibility to select their leader. As they wrote the Constitution, the framers gave the office only limited powers. They wanted a strong executive leader who could deal with emergencies such as those involving other nations, but also could not dominate the U.S. government. Which is a fundamental of effective democracy. They gave the president enough power to check and balance Congress but not enough power to overrun Congress.
The British monarchy on the other hand traces its origins back to early medieval Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England, which with time become the kingdoms of England and Scotland by the 10th century AD. In 1066 Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon monarch, was defeated and killed during the Norman conquest of England. As a

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