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6880. PRESIDENT, Polish Kings and.—[continued].

What we have lately
read in the history of Holland, in the chapter
on the Stadtholder, [394] would have sufficed to


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set me against a chief magistrate eligible for
a long duration, if I had ever been disposed
towards one; and what we have always read
of the elections of Polish Kings should have
forever excluded the idea of one continuable
for life.—
To W. S. Smith. Washington ed. ii, 318. Ford ed., iv, 466.
(P. 1787)

See Constitution (Federal)

 
[394]

See “ Holland ” in this volume.—Editor.