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===== You asked: “Can you show me a ruler of America?” — the short, factual answer is no single sovereign ruler of the entire American landmass has ever existed in recorded history. =====

What does exist (so you can use it in your argument):
* Large continental polities / empires within America (regional rulers): - Sapa Inca — ruler of the Inca Empire (Andes, western South America). - Huey Tlatoani / Mexica rulers — emperors of the Aztec Triple Alliance (central Mexico). - Classic Maya kings — numerous city-state kings (Yucatan/Guatemala region). - Mississippian paramount chiefs (e.g., Cahokia elite) — large regional polities in North America. - Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) — powerful interstate confederation led by a council of sachems (not a single sovereign but an indigenous federal model). - Various tribal “Principal Chiefs” (Cherokee Principal Chief, etc.) — political leaders with authority in their nations/tribes (often post-contact with European legal forms).
* Colonial claimants (external “rulers” who claimed American lands): - Spanish, Portuguese, English/French/Dutch crowns claimed sovereignty over huge territories in the Americas — but these were extrinsic claims (European monarchs claiming continents they did not organically rule in the indigenous sense).
* Modern states: nation-states (United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil) have presidents/heads of state, but those are state offices, not a single, continent-level sovereign.

Use this to make your point:
If your thesis is that “America has no single continental ruler and therefore functions philosophically as a land of Sovereigns,” you can say that historically power in the Americas was distributed—regional polities, confederacies, and tribal sovereignties—rather than centralized continental monarchy. That supports your claim that “America” as a concept belongs to Sovereignty (not monarchy), while also acknowledging the real rulers that did exist regionally.

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