What States Are Named After Presidents? The Ace Of Spades HQ has The Answer!
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It's interesting to think we have more states named after royalty than presidents
Most presidential names seem to be in the county/street level instead of the whole state.
I think its a testament to how long we managed to go before presidents started being deified and treated as these godlike figures equivalent to royalty that we didn't end up doing so. Even if Reagan/Clinton/Obama changed that trend to leave us where we are now.
The founders didn’t want us venerating presidents.
They actually invented the word “president” specifically to signify a minimal role. Early drafts of the constitution named the position king. They also considered emperor. It was always going to be an elected position, but that’s what it might have been called. Even “governor” was deemed too important-sounding.
In the end, they went with a word that just means “presides over” - the federal government was never meant to be very powerful.
They should just have called them exarchs.