"As our president bears no resemblance to a king
so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being
hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious.
For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will
have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power
merely because their father held it before them." --Tench Coxe, An
American Citizen, No. 2, 1787
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