How do we in America keep the executive branch and the President from transforming first into an Imperial President, then a soft tyrant, and finally and worst, a hard tyrant?
We remain ever vigilant. We insist upon the 8 year limit for serving as President--no Putin as President for life in America.
Some have pointed out that the British keep the Queen for ceremonial duties and the Prime Minister as more powerful, but less glamorous legal executive for Britain to the executive power split, decentralized and not concentrated in the hands of one ruler.
With our constitutional republic, how do we achieve the same end without a Queen to venerate?
I would recommend a workable, satisfying substitute for voters. Allow the President to rule as the legal executive without glamor or kingly power or cermenonial pomp.
We need to train our voters to self-upgrade their skill and knowledge as voters and citizens so that they easily, daily function as supercitizens, as individuating anarchists, and active self-actualizers that find fulfillment in their need for ceremony, ritual and custom in their own individuating routines, so that they do not need to centralize such dramatic, royal attribution in the person of the sitting President.
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