Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-07-01
VINDEX.
The GOVERNMENT OF THE u.
STATES NOT A DEMOCRACY.

Il will be remembered by the readers q
the mi Democrat, that Oh the 9Th inf
we republihed from Virginia paper q
1914, lome remarks on the nature Of o.,
federal contribution |; tending to Prove
that although it partskes OF the p:iuci.
pies Of the three forms ofgoyesnment, ii,
democratic, arilfocratic, and monarche
yet that it belongs not to any one Of
them, and in particular, thatis is not a
aemoc,aty. The objcd Of the wrier sp
pears to have been to convince that party
which then began to sGame the name oI
dem0er0fie, that as applying TO our con,
ffitution, the title was i'll chofen, iDas.
much as its fubaituted for the actual 20.
vernmcns Of Tie country merely one Of its
originating principles. In this we 70
fully conceded that we eonGdered the ar.
guments in fuppogt of fuch an intention
we'll defcrving republication.
In the A9yoya Ia paper publilhed in
Philadelphia by Nj. Duane) Of the I4h
infant, it is attempted to be proven iha!
The article alluded TO (which is fuOk.
quently denominated 9 flaming, but
trfa/ona5k attack upon the American forms
OF Govefnnent') has totally mifaken the
nature ofcur federal ard fate confitu.
ticns, which are aGerted to be mfoay
Y1pea completely and bfyeab D<m'era.
tic, according to the favori'e dogma Of
the party 70 which the paper is an
cTcIe.
In the Natimal LnfelEgenetr, paper
publifhed at the feat OF government, q nexl
in authority TO the Aursfa, 1t is aheftel
that Liberty does RET fsqO tram goods laee.
bit fbat good larvs proesedf rom Lfbfry'
Which, it meaning any thing, mutt refer
liberty to that fate of nature, wherein
man is uneonfned by any law, not to
thst fate Of cival fociety, wherein Mans
rights and Liberties are iecured by laws en-.
acted by az obligatory On thar fociety.
Thefa are the opinions intended to be
implanted as fac5ed truths in the public
mind, by thole Whole interef and win
appear 70 be to confouDd all the barriers
of civil order, and iubvert tie coneituton
Of our country, by giving sit talfe def.
nition, and by forcing The deluded Peo'
pie Of ,leie fatss TO believe themielsss,|
not the fubje6ts but the matters Of ih'I
law. Theie are the isrtincnts and dos.
trines which it IS the duty Of every
well meaning citizen 10 combat and De.
aroy.
That tie goodnefs or badnels Of th'|
, laws continues freedom or layery IN Al
fate; is a petition, which thole who con-
tradia have only involved yhemfeIvcs IN
abfurdity by oppoGng, which can iccaFceiyI
be made clearer by demonRration, which
argument only tends 10 psrqiex, and 70
which the general understanding Of man.
kind Immediately and involuntary AZ
tents. And the only realon why repuO'
lcsn is preferable to any other form y
government, is, that it gives the gIs'
ptomiie Of juf and equal laws, and q
their fair and impartial adminIifanon1S
No government me,fD fur its .foym
to be made the objea ofreverence or az
,achment as no idol of certain ikaPS
is to be regarded as peculiarly the iymI
Dol Of the iuPreme being. To conitif'DI
the utility Of a political lyRem, as well a
the excellence of a religious one, we nun
calculate, IN both cafes, whether they an
iwer the purpofss for which they were lo1I
ftisuied whether in the one lnltance
produces temporal PROPERTY, IN The ofnsf
points the way to eternal haPP'neis.-
This is the true criterion Of a good 60
vernment: and 70 doubt can be entertain
ed that as The character Of one nation5
differs from another, 70 lnould lis govern
ment. Can FrcDchman ENJOY ration3
liberty or an American tafnely crond
under delpoifm? Would the ipirit OF