added, it never fails to be the deſtruction of the commonwealth. What ſhall be done to guard againſt it? Shall they be all maſſacred? This experiment has been more than once attempted, and once at leaſt tried. Guy Faux attempted it in England; and a king of Denmark, aided by a popular party, effected it once in Sweden; but it anſwered no good end. The moment they were dead, another ariſtocracy inſtantly aroſe, with equal art and influence, with leſs delicacy and diſcretion, if not principle, and behaved more intolerably than the former. The country, for centuries, never recovered from the ruinous conſequences of a deed ſo horrible, that one would think it only to be met with in the hiſtory of the kingdom of darkneſs.
There is but one expedient yet diſcovered, to avail the ſociety of all the benefits from this body of men, which they are capable of affording, and at the fame time to prevent them from undermining or invading the public liberty; and that is, to throw them all, or at leaſt the moſt remarkable of them, into one aſſembly together, in the legiſlature; to keep all the executive power entirely out of their hands as a body; to erect a firſt magiſtrate over them, inveſted with the whole executive authority; to make them dependent on that executive magiſtrate for all public executive employments; to give that firſt magiſtrate a negative on the legiſlature, by which he may defend both himſelf and the people from all their enterprizes in the legiſlature; and to erect on the other ſide of them an impregnable barrier againſt them, in a houſe of commons, fairly, fully, and adequately repreſenting the people, who ſhall have the power both of negativing all their attempts at encroachments in the legiſlature, and of withholding both from them and the crown all ſup-
