It has been said that the American constitution was designed to address all the faults in the monarchy of George III, so that a tyrant would never again rule the nation that was then emerging. The British solved the problem a different way, by gradually removing all political power from the occupant of the throne and placing it in the hands of elected politicians. The American way, which is currently experiencing something like a test to destruction, was to surround the head of state, the elected monarch, with powerful balancing forces which were not under his or her direct control, such as the legislature and the judiciary.