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TgoM TIE BALTIMORE REpUBLIGAN, OK
ANTI. DEMOCRAT.
ESSAY Ills

the Rf5iata I36SslG3 o3haS9 o s'eI.'Ne. ~
apoVefaaens Snere tne people collectively
pr Ia baby, aave . right 50 assembls at
s certaia nerineIs 70 enact laws by majority
cf voices and TO try ofFeaces committed
eea;ost he laws of the slate. And au crls-
t9e,acy where the. power OF making laws
aad toying oEences Is lodged exclusively
wishtAe rich or mobiles.
Hence he inters, chat the eonst'ictlon
Of the Iatsd States Is aeitnsr aemocfd.
CT nor az aiistocrgcy: nos a democracy,
byscauss the people have no right to NEST
q d b9d.j 10 make La1vs, which IS the es-
sence Of democracy: not an GfIstocfacy,
because tae rich have no e@cfHs'pe righf 10
popera, which is the characteristic OF arls'
locrAcy.
This he further enforces, BY tr;ef ANA
Esis OF the principles OF me constitution
OF the United States. Ihe rtSat IN the
Dropls 10 elect the persons, which the com.
ract vests with the power 20 make laws,
h. considers us participating OF the Prtnci.
ME II democracy. The exclusion OF all
nersons under twenty-five years OF age,
from, a right 10 be chosen TO make iawsi all
,vho are not thirty, from being senators;
al II, who are not thirty ave, SC. from
belne presidents of the Unlrec States, as
belonging to the principle OF aristocracy.
The n,ods of electlrg the president, toge-
,ber w,sh his funcions and powers, as par
,;e;bat;nr Of the monarchic principle.
As. taerefors, the constitution OF the
JIa;ted States cen neither be denomlnatn
ed democracg nor 40 ariStocrdey, without
n,.rrersion Of terms, TIC ASKS, what IS II
4 representative government OF a mixed
nature, excluding che disorders ana tFFahc
nv insenarable from those two kinds OF
ray.ru,aeut. the democracy and aristocra-
S--,. :, The doctrine of TIE srrif-"s Al the
Virginia Gazette, as repubiIShed In the
Anti Democrat.
On the other hand, the Aurcra main
tains, that the constitution of The United
States is a complete and perfect democrd-
Gu and adduces in support OF this position
the following proofs.
1st. Proof. His own assertion; which,
il Is possible, would be taken by many OF
his readers in preference to Aristode's. 1
shall therefore pass It over IS andnszuera.
lie.
I'd. Proof. a deuuncia,ion of all these
who Will no; sabscribe TO rae doctrine, that
the constitution of the United States is a
complete and perfect democracy, as fools
or assbieabIe knapes or imtoSters.' This
proof being Gas one may say corro1ars
from his first, sill no doubf be considered
equally conclusive, with all those for whom
il IS particularly intended; 4 shall, there
fore leave il where found it.
His Sd proof, partaking more Of shs ma.
ture Of an Argument, is entitled TO be treat
GU wi h some forensick respect.
1t consists in definition OF democracy
from Walker. critical Pr0'aoancfng dc
tionary !; another dehsition from Mon.
tescuieu; an atss upt TO describe the con.
s.i,ution of Athens; and fn0ertsa Quota
tions from jadgc Wilson'S speeches III the
Penasylyanis convention, for deciding 1p-
on the constitution.
/ shall in the first place examine, whe-
sher the judge on this OCCASION, has de''n-
ed or described the constitution to be a
democracy. He was memner OF the con-
vention which framed it; and the Aurora
says, to put this question out OF doubt,
let us refer TO the trainers; and selects
the Judge as an example.
Judge Wilson, of Pennsylvania, after
haYing suggested some of the may diff
cnlsies which the trainers of the const.tu-
ton had to encounter, observes, 1--WE may
see the great end which they proposed to
accomplish. TWAS to frame, for the con-
A. T.. 4
al and national constitutional constitution
that would produce the advantages Of good.
and prevent the Inconvenience Of bad go
vernment; constitution whose 6emfcence
and energy would peryade the whole union,