The presidential system of government emerged from the united states of America. This type oF government was never practiced anywher before, across the globe. It was in 1789 that preidential system of government came into existence in the American political history.
The influence of the U.S. Constitution in Latin America was undoubtedly significant in the early nineteenth century. Among others, Venezuela‘s constitution of 1811, Mexico‘s of 1824, Argentina‘s of 1826, and Ecuador‘s of 1830 drew significantly on the American model16 Even when not adopted, American institutions were part of the mix of models considered. Argentina‘s constitution of 1853 was particularly close to the
U.S. model, so much so that Argentinian judges routinely drew on U.S. constitutional jurisprudence in interpreting their own constitution for more than a century 17
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During the time of independence, the Latin American countries were struggling hard with the same fundamental problems with which leaders of the newly independent United States struggled after 1776: this was as to how to constitute executive authority in such a way that the monarch remains no longer the ruler. Parliamentary government had not yet been codified as such and was still in the process of being prepeared and emerged out of recently constitutionalized Europe.33 Emergence of Parliamentary constitution was a slow and gradual process after a period of constant negotiations btween the nobles and the monarchs in hwich finally the pariament emerged as the center of effective governnance, replacing the monarch.
Comiing back to Latin America, the initial governments by contrast, whether revolutionary or not, had gradually emerged from a system of monarchy in where one ruler sat at the center as the head of the political system
There were many admirers of the presidential system. It was seen as a strong yet very importntly, non-hereditary