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4274. KINGS, Republicanism.—

If all
the evils which can arise among us from the
republican form of our government, from this
day to the day of judgment, could be put into
a scale against what this country[France] suffers from its monarchical form in a week,
or England in a month, the latter would predominate.—
To Benjamin Hawkins. Washington ed. ii, 221. Ford ed., iv, 426.
(P. 1787)