*. I have always been opposed to the mode of refining Gov∣ernment up to an individual, or what is called a single Execu∣tive. Such a man will always be the chief of a party. A plu∣rality is far better: It combines the mass of a nation better to∣gether: And besides this, it is necessary to the manly mind of a republic, that it loses the debasing idea of obeying an individual.

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