You are offered the position of Absolute Dictator of the United States for a period of 10 years. You can implement any changes to the Constitution, fire anyone, disband anything, change any law, even have people arrested and imprisoned or executed. True absolute dictatorial powers to remake the nation in the image you desire over the course of a decade.
But the catch is that you personally will be put to death at the end of the decade no matter what. It's the one thing you cannot change, cannot avoid, cannot alter in any way. Even if you do the best job ever, you will be put to death at the end of your term. So no clever 'I would change the rules so I don't' or 'I would flee to another country right before it's over' or other dodges like that. You absolutely will die after the term is over. You in essence will be performing a soldier's sacrifice, but only much more effective and individually focused. Instead of giving your life for your country in the hopes of saving it in the abstract, you personally will be able to actually save it in whatever form you think that takes, but you will absolutely be giving your life for it.
Do you take the deal?
Probably but it’s a tough one with such short time. I do t want to go on just a vengeance tour and do nothing, but more leave what remains of the populace in such a great state that I’m revered as a hero for all of history. With easily the first chunk of that being caught up in a lot of uproar and possibly causing a war there wouldn’t be much time to fix the system afterwards in such a way that the people don’t just revert it all the next day.
The other question I’d have is can I be killed during the term, or is my life guaranteed in this scenario to ten years. I’d likely want to be assassinated by a lot of people and by countries who would actually do it.