Along with making the executive branch too much like royalty, the founding fathers also screwed up massively with the basic design of the judicial branch, again with the royalty, anointed unchecked power for life.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! - HT