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The United States has kind of a reputation for not doing the whole royalty thing: we get that it’s kind of baked into a lot of other countries’ cultures, and if it works for you, great, more power to you. Here in America, we decided early on not to put executive power in the hands of someone with a crown on their head, but one man had the vision and the courage to not only advocate for a return to royal rule, but took it a step further and declared himself the ruler of this new monarchy, and that man was Norton I: Emperor of the United States.