Precisely what form he would have substituted for the legislative and executive system adopted nowhere appears in his writings, but certainly neither president nor senate would have been included.

They bore too close a resemblance to king and lords to win his approval, no matter how restricted their powers.

He would evidently have leaned to a single house, with a temporary executive directly appointed by itself; or, if elected by the people, then for a short term of office, without renewal; and he would have reduced its legislative powers to the narrowest possible limit.

The best government he held to be that which governs least; and many of the ablest of that incomparable body of men who welded this Union held these views.

But the yearning of the people was in the other direction.