Never having felt the evils of too weak an executive, the disorders to be apprehended from anarchy make as yet no impression"-- "They want an American Constitution,[2122] but with a King instead of a President, without reflecting they have no American citizens to support that Constitution...

If they have the good sense to give the nobles, as nobles, some portion of the national power, this free constitution will probably last, But otherwise it will degenerate either into a pure monarchy, or a vast republic, or a democracy.

Will the latter last?
I doubt it.

I am sure that it will not, unless the whole nation is changed." A little later, when they renounce a parliamentary monarchy to put in its place "a royal democracy," it is at once explained to them that such an institution applied to France can produce nothing but anarchy, and finally end in despotism.
"Nowhere[2123] has liberty proved to be stable without a sacrifice of its excesses, without some barrier to its own omnipotence...

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