Donte Alighieri II

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**Donte Salvator Cenomanensis Alighieri II** (May 3, 2156 - September 1, 2349) was an American Politician and Statesmen who served as the final Emperor and the 91st President of the United States as well as Prime Minister. He was a leading member and founder of the Commawatch Party and played a pivotal role in the downfall of the American Empire.

Alighieri was born of parthenogenesis, whereas there was only a Mother and no Father. Throughout his life many religious groups primitively declared him the second coming of Jesus Crist despite his constant refusal of the idea.

Starting off as a junior member of the Imperialist Party he rose up in the party and served for the first 10 years of the third American civil war before it became the second American revolution. His loyalty to the party eventually fell apart and he helped found the underground resistance group known as the Commawatch. After the revolution he was elected President in 2216 and was the first person elected President since Mohammed Dockery in 2188.

Near constantly ranked as one of the greatest President of all time for his help in overthrowing Imperialist Rule in America, Restoring Democracy to the United States, following the doctrine of Continual Destiny to reunite the entire United States and his outstanding leadership capabilities.

## Early Life

Donte Alighieri II was born on May 3, 2156 to a sole parent. He was the first ever confirmed human being to be born from parthenogenesis, where there was only one mother and no father. His birth stunned the medical community. Several religious groups hailed him as the second coming of Christ. Alighieri graduated from Penn State University in 2179.

## Entry into Politics

After turning 17 in 2173 he registered as an official member of the Imperialist Party and joined the "Internal Defense Force".

## Service in the Imperialist Policy

After joining the Internal Defense Force he rose through the ranks eventually being appointed IDF Director by President Minh Arias in 2183. He used his position to expand the Agency's powers to investigate citizens of foreign nations activity in relation to American citizens activities.

## Disillusion with the Imperialist Party

On April 20, 2200 President Thorton Echevarria stood in a joint session of the Imperialist Conference to announce to the Nation the formal creation of the United States of the American Empire. This action was met with overwhelming negativity from the general population and near imminently lead to the secession of several American states starting with Iraq. Alighieri's loyalty to the party began to weaver as the Government bungled it's response to the succession by first ignoring it outright then reacting with shocking hostility leading to alienation of more states leading to their breakaway.

## Founding of the Commawatch

During the first 10 years of the civil war Alighieri remained officially loyal to the Imperialist government working to prosecute traitors to the Empire and stop espionage. However by year 14 the war was going so horribly and Echevarria had become so tyrannical that Aligheri had lost total faith in his ability to lead and grew to view the Party with disgust for their refusal to push back on him in any real way. On June 15, Alighieri met with Vice President Barnabas Blankenship and General Bullrun Jackson in private conference to discuss the war situation and develop plans to save the United States. General Jackson made clear that the American state was dangerously close to being destroyed and that the only real way to preserve the United States and return it to stability was to bring the current government to its end. On July 4, 2214 the Commawatch was formed with the intent to Kill Emperor Thorton Echevarria, Capture Washington D.C., dismantle the Imperialist Party and end the Second American Revolution.

## Second American Revolution

The three men drafted a plan to carry out the Assassination of Thorton Echevarria and put an end to the war.

## Prime Minister (2216-2217)

After Prime Minister Adrian Hersey was ousted, President Blankenship appointed Alighieri to the position of Prime Minister as a ceremonial honor to signify the purification of an office created by the Imperialists, purified by the Commawatch. Alighieri only served for the 20 days leading up to his inauguration as President upon which he resigned to be sworn in as President and appointed General Bullrun Jackson to the position.

## Presidency (2217-2225)

### Presidential Campaign

With President Blankenship choosing not to run for re-election, Alighieri would easily win the Commawatch primary and subsequent Presidential Election of 2216, in which he would run unopposed. This was the first election since Washington's third and fourth terms in which the winner would go unopposed in an election.

### First 100 days

During his first term, a question would arise as to whether or not the nation should permit the Imperialist Party to be re-founded, or whether Imperialists should be persecuted. The Commawatch Party would be divided into three factions on the matter, the most democratic of which claiming that Imperialists should be forgiven and the Imperialist Party should be reformed, a moderate faction claiming that Imperialists can be forgiven yet the party cannot be reformed, and the "justicists", who advocated for the criminalization of support for Emperor Thorton and the Imperialists, and even all Imperialist Presidents by some of the more radical justicists in the Constitution. Alighieri would largely be a democrat, and would claim that the Commawatch fought for the people's rights above all else, so all people were entitled to these rights. In the 2118 Midterm Election, Alighieri endorsed many democrats running under the Commawatch Party and would deliver a speech emphasizing democratic values. The results of the midterms would prove Alighieri's campaigning to be successful; democrats largely dominated both houses of Congress in 2219, thus allowing Alighieri to propose and sign the "Democracy Act", which instituted the democrats' agenda and affirmed that free speech extended to the support of Emperor Thorton and the Imperialists.

In the 2220 Presidential Election, Alighieri would face opposition from moderate Jason Stunt, and justicists Victor Smith and Michael Uni, both of whom would attempt to unseat Alighieri in the primary and who would criticize Alighieri for his democratic policies. Alighieri, however, would win the primary with a landslide and would run unopposed in the General Election, thus winning a second term. Seeing Imperialist sympathy being minuscule in this election in addition to the previous midterm, centrist and justicist support would be seen as useless, thus vastly diminishing their support in elections that followed.

In his second term, Alighieri largely focused on re-unifying the nation. While largely leaving the proposal of legislation to Congressmen, Alighieri would support and sign various bills creating a national legal code and national efforts to aid the impoverished (which the Imperialists largely neglected), which Alighieri deemed as essential for "progressing the nation as one". Many, however, would grow cautious of this approach to governance, having grown accustomed to their states being the sole governing force without any large-scale power. Those fearful of federal power would proceed to form the "Liberty Party", which advocated for individual freedom and for the federal government to step back from imposing too many laws and regulations. Although the Liberty Party would fail to obtain a majority in either Congressional house during the 2222 Midterm Election, they would obtain a sizable amount of seats in the House of Representatives and would sweep most of their Senatorial races (yet would come no where near a majority due to only 1/3 of the Senate being up for election). Despite this, however, no policy from the Commawatch Party nor Alighieri himself would successfully be repealed and/or blocked by Liberty opposition.

After two full terms as President, Alighieri would retire from politics. He would largely be remembered as a guardian of democracy and of civil and political rights, both in his actions and policy, and would largely shape the Commawatch Party into one of national unity; one which was willing to exert federal power to attain such. The Alighieri Administration would largely shape America's politics over the next five and a half decades.

### Imperial Reign (2217-2218)

Like his Imperial Predecessor, Alighieri hated his title as Emperor and wanted to rid himself of it as fast as possible. The opportunity presented itself when it was decided that the American Empire would be both symbolically and legally abolished on July 4th of his second year in Office to officially "transfer Imperial rule back to American Democracy". Like the Emperors before him, law required he be introduced at Government events by his regnal title, "His Imperial Majesty, Donte Alighieri II, Emperor of the American Empire, President of the United States". When he was introduced as such during his first State of the Union, he used the opportunity to shame the title and gloat about America's victory over the Empire.

#### Abdication

On July 4th, 2218, Emperor Alighieri, just months after the final Empire Day Celebration, held one of his own to denote the official dissolvent of the American Empire and it's titles and offices. On that day, the title and office of the Emperor and Prime Minister of the United States were both dissolved.