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Often appears with: war powers · president vs king · political legitimacy and consent · hereditary monarchy · forms of government · checks and balances
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“What answer shall we give to those who would persuade us that things so unlike resemble each other? The same that ought to be given to those who tell us that a government, the whole power of which would be in the hands of the elective and periodical servants of the people, is an aristocracy, a monarchy, and a despotism.” Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison, The Federalist Papers · insight
Hamilton concludes by listing key differences between the elected President and the hereditary British king—term length, accountability, veto strength, military and war powers, treaty and appointment authority—then rejects claims that they are alike.
of Great Britain. But to render the contrast in this respect still more striking, it may be of use to throw the principal circumstances of dissimilitude into a closer group. The President of the United States would be an officer elected by the people for FOUR years; the king of Great Britain is a perpetual and HEREDITARY prince. The one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace; the person of the other i…