Surrealist Government, Alt History

Consuls who are handcuffed together for 4 years, or kept under constant surveillance as the Spartan Kings were.

Congress appoints and directs the generals, the ambassadors, the secretaries, etc, for which positions the Consuls can open the nominations but the Congress may disregard. if a given inpasse can not be resolved, the Congress may be dissolved but only if they consent

commissions of plural office holders are the norm, and Consuls will often put forward their lists but if they are weak in the faction game will be routinely edited or ignored.

the commissions may have terms which do not align with the length of a Consular term, though the Congress can appoint and dismiss at will.

during and following the civil wars, the houses of representatives in the diverging time lines tend to dominate. the impeachment of Johnson leads to the Consuls being Grant and Butler. The House under the direction of Thaddeus Stevens reorganizes the South as if it were newly conquered territory.

property was redistributed by the federal government and through uprisings of the enslaved. self determination for the black belt became the sine qua non before the military could be demobilized which meant the black ruling class enforcing it's rule by it's own power. the office of Freemen’s Tribunes, chosen by and subject to the confidence of assemblies chosen by Allotment, able to veto laws applying to the internal management of the Republic of New Africa as well as decisions by it's own legislatures with the aid of the military generals installed by Grant and Butler. the tribunes also veto the votes of it's electoral college votes.

the Senate was punished for it's initial reluctance to impeach Johnson. the use of a joint session of Congress in which senators (enlarged to three per state to dilute the existing membership) would now have equal votes to the representatives would now be the standard form, with senators merely leading their delegations, while the house seats seats which would now be entirely proportional, fixed to a three member minimum, and elected every four years. the senators would be elected state wide by the local legislatures every two years for six year terms while the representatives would be elected every four years from districts.

later, the senators would switch to being elected in popular votes.

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Washington went crazy fighting ghost slave uprisings in a much more protracted revolutionary war which led to the empowering of his vice president and cabinet and the imperial presidency.

when he retires while his successor-elect Adams is dining at mt Vernon after three terms beginning much earlier due to the confederation not being drawn up for slave uprising readings Adams dies due to an attenpted assasination by poisoning Washington is invited to be elected for a fourth time, though he himself barely survives. he makes Hamilton his VP, overruling the college which had elected Jefferson second place, but Jefferson is from Virginia and can't share Washington's delegates to the electoral college.

Away fighting a civil war against the woman who poisoned his successor-elect, Washington gives Hamilton free reign, and when Washington’s popularity declines as his administration falls out with the revolutionary French government and his war with the indigenous confederacies and ex slaves multiply Hamilton relies on aggressive censorship to maintain federalist power, power of the Senate and Courts.

meanwhile Jefferson stood for a 5/5ths slave holder Republic with a single chamber of Congress, congressional veto of the supreme Court, a supreme jury (initially to be drawn from the states or their burrows, his passion project, and the purchase of the Luisiana territory including comissioning Lewis and Clark as majority leader in the House and then when he was remade Governor.

the Duke of Orleans ultimately was sent by the revolutionary government to oversee the war in Hatti from New Orleans and used that city as his court in exile, Luisiana would remain a French holding and royalist holdout, while Hatti became independent. The Dukes remain the hereditary ruler of Luisiana which was dominated by planters in the south and indiginious tribes in the North who the Dukes played off each other.

when Hamilton gets the nod from an ailing Washington to run for president neither he nor Jefferson cracks 50%, with Washington himself unable to secure a majority for his aide de camp. consensus states only Washington himself can win, and to do so he might need to cut a deal with Jefferson, but Washington dies in an inn (presumed poisoning) the Congress calls a constitutional session declaring it's intent to restructure the presidency, end the wars, and address it's crises. Jefferson and Hamilton are made Co Consuls, with the balance of power split between the Jeffersonian popular planter House and the Hamiltonian aristocratic Senate, with the House’s enlargement of it's Southern Delegation by applying a 5/5ths formula is eventually passed.

Jefferson is reelected this time by the House as the college remains deadlocked and Hamilton tries to use his influence to have Burr beat by Knox, Burr ultimately duals and shoots Hamilton leader of the Opposition.