Yes, again, that's my point. The President's king-like powers are that way precisely because all the people in that society in the 1770's were accumstomed to the idea of a monarch wielding those sort of powers. The American revolutionaries attempted to liberalize things and spread the power around, they just did not take that iniativer quite far enough...in terms of what has happened since in liberal democracies.

Now most of the rest of the western world has, in fact, become more progressive in that sense than the USA has, because the USA is resting its governmental structures on an old model that stems from way back in the 1770's, and it's become a bit out of date in the interim.