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Because when we broke away from england king James was so horribal to the colonies that we swore we would never have a king again so instead we have a president. It's pretty much the same as a king but except he is elected into office.

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because back then when the usa first came to be people decided that they wanted it to be a democracy

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US does not have a monarchy. They have democratic form of Gov't.

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Currently they have a queen (not a king) but the queen does not have much power. Actually they have a prime minister which has a similar role to a president.

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