monarchical america

“…a horrid and unnatural Rebellion and War, has been openly and traitorously raised and levied against this Commonwealth, and is still continued, and now exists within the same, with design to subvert and overthrow the Constitution and Form of Government thereof which has been most solemnly...

OTL, the failures of the Articles of Confederation led to the establishment of the American Commonwealth, an elective monarchy in which each man with a certain amount of money (or later on, many were given the privellage by local governors) elected their pick from amongst peers of the realm...