How can the first magistrate and father of a pure republican government ... before his proposed plan of amendment has been determined upon, declare that he will accept a Constitution which is to beget a monarchy or an aristocracy?...
Beveridge questions the integrity of a leader who would accept a constitution that could lead to tyranny.
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