you obviously can manage to get by with them being the same person-- we have-- but there are good reasons (not always the same good reasons) why most other systems don't.
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i always remind myself that the founding fathers, for all their failures and negotiations to try and hold together their fragile new country that had already failed one attempt at democratic self governance, were really making shit up in uncharted territory.
like, at the time they were writing this in more than one country in europe the head of state was in a very literal way seen as the country itself. louis xvi and george iii were divine right of kings guys.
Actually by the time King George III showed up the parliamentary system was already gaining power and the divine right of kings went out with the Bill of Rights Act of 1689. So our founding fathers werent working in the dark. From the Magna Carter on they had some building blocks.
No worries. Oh Im sure George still thought he had gods blessing. But he was eventually replaced for being insane so maybe those voices weren't god after all. 😄
To me, the most interesting set up is independent countries that used to be part of the British Empire (e.g. Canada and Australia) that continue to use the British Monarch as the Head of State via an appointed Governor General.
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