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THE POLITICAL DOCTRINES 215 
age of the bench rather than that of the pene- 
ver. For example, in his Farewell Address, 
rritten largely by Hamilton, he spoke of the 
being “the offspring of our own choice, un- 
1d unawed, adopted upon full investigation, 
deliberation, completely free in its principles, 
bution of its powers, uniting security with 
Ie feared, however, the type of politics repre- 
» Democratic Societies which sprang up during 
ation, and looked upon criticism of the govern- 
to sedition.? Like Jefferson, he also viewed 
nsion the growth of an urban population, for 
La Fayette at the time of the French Revolu- 
“The tumultuous populace of large cities are 
ireaded. Their indiscriminate violence pros- 
time all public authority.” 
liamson was against placing property quali- 
voters for members of Congress;* and he was 
he association of the judges with the executive 
se of the veto power.’ He preferred to insert 
equiring a two-thirds vote for every “effective 
rislature.” ® He was, however, an opponent of 
mey party in North Carolina 7 and in the Con- 
supported a proposition forbidding the states 
)st facto laws, on the ground that “the judges 
1 of it.” 8 
son was among the philosophers of the period 
ously pondered on politics in its historical and 
ects. In the Convention he took a democratic 
s (Sparks ed., 1848), Vol. XII, p. 222; see below, p. 299. 
ol. X, p. 429. 3 Ibid., Vol. X, p. 179, 
, Records, Vol. II, pp. 201, 250. 
ol. I, p. 140. 8 Ibid., Vol. I, p. 140. 
p- 146. 8 Farrand, Vol. II, 376. 
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