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Author: MarqFJA

Nov 3rd 2016 at 11:40:20 AM

^^ AlternateHistoryAmericanMonarchy doesn't really seem that much of TheSameButMoreSpecific, when one considers that of the currently existing countries whose government '''currently''' operates as a republic (thus disqualifying cases like England and the Netherlands), the oldest three among them in terms of when they made the transition are, in descending chronological order: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino San Marino]] (September 3, 301), Switzerland (October 24, 1648), and the United States of America (September 3, 1783)[[note]]For those wondering, the French First Republic was established about 10 years after the USA, in 22 September 1792[[/note]]. And like it or not, the USA did pretty much become the most popular example of a "modern liberal-democratic republic" for a lot of countries around the world since then. Combined with the fact that it was born from a revolution against a monarchy-ruled country, and had never been a monarchy itself since it attained independence, and it's easy to see why imagining it as a monarchy has special significance compared to, say, France. It's not hard to imagine what a modern French monarchy could be like, because '''it used to be one just a mere 2 centuries ago''' (heck, France oscillated between monarchism and republicanism several times after the first French Revolution, before finally settling on republicanism).