As reported
in a letter from South Carolina's Rep. Tucker, the Senate committee eventually decided
that the president should be called, "His Highness the President, Protector of the
Liberties of the United States." (to St. George Tucker, May 13, 1789,
College of William and Mary) In the same letter he tells his brother,
"Our new government is now in full Operation, but how it will move
or what will the the End of it I can scarcely conjecture. I am not yet in Love
with it, & I doubt if I ever shall be. With Concern I perceive that it has infused
into the Minds of People here the most intolerable Rage for Monarchy that can be
imagined. Verily I believe that a very great proportion are ripe for a King &
would salute the President as such with all the Folly of
Enthusiasm."
(July 24, 1789, Massachusetts Historical Society)
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