A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America a
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The executive power is now vetted in the fu- preme permanent council ; but here neither have they any checks, all being decided by the majo- rity, and the faie principal families will always prevail. Thefe auguft legifiators have acknowledged the principle of 2 free republican government, that it confifts in a ftricl execution of the laws, and an equilibrium of eftates or orders : but how are the laws to govern ? and how is the equili- brium to be prderved ? . Like air, oil, and water, fhaken P...oland. 87 fliaken together in one bottle, and left in repofe ; the firft will rife to the top, the laft fmk to the bottom, and the fecond fwim between. , Our countrymen will never run delirious after a word or a name. The name republic is given to things, in their nature as different and contra- dictory as light and darknefs, truth and falfehood, virtue and vice, happinefs and mifery, . There are free republics, and republics as tyrannical as an oriental defpotifm. A free republic is the beft of governments, and the grekteft bleffing which mortals can afpire to.
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