“Unlocking Humanity: The Surprising Secret Behind What Makes Us Truly Human”
Or as William Pierce would state that the senate should “be less [in numbers] than the House of Commons” and “such a check as to keep up the balance, and to restrain, if possible, the furry of democracy.”
Similarly, George Mason would argue that the other branch should be made of individuals who “know and sympathise with every part of the community,” mirroring Adams’ May 18th serialization that such an assembly should be “chosen by the people… communicate all the wants, knowledge, projects, and wishes of the nation.”
Gourverneur Morris would further argue on July 2, if the common and the elite were to be mixed in one legislature, “The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest… They always did. They always will.” And he suggested, as Adams had, “The only security against them is to form them into a separate interest.” If not done, Morris argued, once again as Adams had in his book, “The result of the contest will be a violent aristocracy, or a more violent despotism.”
On July 6th, the Mercury would also publish more of Adams’ book, in particular, speaking of the elite in society, “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 same time to prevent them from undermining or invading the public liberty.” And that was, once again, to put them together in their own branch and “to keep all the executive power entirely out of their hands”. As well as give the executive power “a negative against them.”
