ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines the antifederalist attacks on the presidency. The office of President of the United States appears to him to be clothed with such powers as are dangerous. The author talks about Patrick Henry: speech against ratification. Patrick Henry was a delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of Virginia. The selection is from Debates and Other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia. The author then talks about the The Dangers of an Elected Monarch and George Clinton: Fourth Essay of "Cato". The establishment of a Vice President is as unnecessary as it is dangerous. This officer, for want of other employment, is made President of the Senate, thereby blending the executive and legislative powers, besides always giving to some one state, from which he is to come, an unjust pre-eminence. Though the President, during the sitting of the legislature, is assisted by the Senate, yet he is without a constitutional council in their recess.
