Such a man was Sir Patrick Hume.

He had returned from exile, as litigious, as impracticable; as morbidly jealous of all superior authority, and as fond of haranguing, as he had been four years before, and was as much bent on making a merely nominal sovereign of William as he had formerly been bent on making a merely nominal general of Argyle, [314] A man far superior morally and intellectually to Hume, Fletcher of Saltoun, belonged to the same party.
Though not a member of the Convention, he was a most active member of the Club, [315] He hated monarchy: he hated democracy: his favourite project was to make Scotland an oligarchical republic.

The King, if there must be a King, was to be a mere pageant.

The lowest class of the people were to be bondsmen.

The whole power, legislative and executive, was to be in the hands of the Parliament.