[MR] kinda off topic question

[Jim]

The simplest answer is because that's the title provided by the Constitution for the person in charge.  To really get an answer other than that, you'd have to ask the guys that wrote it, but my basic understanding is the colonists had pretty much had their fill of royalty and nobility, which is why there are prohibitions in the Constitution against titles of nobility.  As to why they chose President as the title, my best guess would be that it basically means "one who presides over something", and was a relatively neutral term, whereas most other well-known titles for "person-in-charge" related to nobility, or may have been otherwise distasteful.
 
Regards,
Mathias

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, M'lady Foxy <angellfoxx at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: M'lady Foxy <angellfoxx at yahoo.com>
Subject: [MR] kinda off topic question
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 4:00 PM


 A young friend on mine asked me the following question and I didn't know
the answer sadly so if someone knows please let me know so I can let her
know.Thank you

 If the Americas were founded by the Spanish and English why do we have a
president instead of a king or queen??/


      
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