That of Poland, previous to the dissolution of the state, with an Executive, for life, was never called by any other name. The late government of Holland, with a hereditary Stadtholder, was constantly so denominated. Even the government of England, with a powerful hereditary King, as been repeatedly spoken of by authors, as a Commonwealth or Republic. In practice, the terms Republic and Republican, have been applied with as little precision.
According to this definition the actual Government of the United States, and of most states, is a Monarchy. 2 Some authors denominate every government a Monarchy, in which the Executive Authority is placed in a single hand whether for life or for years, and whether conferred by election or by decent. Such is the opinion held by a man now one of Mr. The mad Democrat will have nothing republican which does not accord with his own mad theory-He rejects even representation. Every man who speaks or writes on the subject, has an arbitrary standard in his own mind. No exact definitions have settled what is or is not, a Republican Government, as contradistinguished from a Monarchical. Before it can be decided, however, whether this would be a monarchy or a republic, it seems necessary to settle the meaning of those terms. It is now replied, that he proposed a “system composed of three branches, an Assembly, a Senate, and a Governor that the Assembly should be elected by the people for three years, and that the Senate and Governor should likewise be elected by the people during good behaviour.” Thus the charge is at length reduced to specific terms.
Hamilton had been charged with holding an opinion in favor of monarchy, and it had been said he proposed a monarchy to the Convention. We might well be excused from taking any notice of such a writer as the author of the leading article in the Citizen of this morning but as in one instance he has pretended to state facts, in reply to what was said in the Evening Post, respecting the opinions held in the Convention by Mr.
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