Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States: Comprising Nine Sections, Under the Following Heads: I. Aristocracy; II. The Principles of the Policy of the United States, and of the English Policy; III. The Evil Moral Principles of the Government of the United States IV. Funding; V. Banking In the prosecution of these objects, frequent use will be made of the word aristocracy, because the ideas at pre sent attached to it, make it more significant thanhany other. Mr. Adams rears his system upon two assertions: That there are only three generical forms of government; monarchy. Firistocracy and democracy, of which all other forms are mixtures and that every society naturally pro duces an order of men, which it is impossible to confine to an equality of rights. Political power in one man, without division or responsibility, is monarchy; the same power in a few, is aristocracy; and the same power in the wholenation, is democracy. And the resemblance of our system_of government to either of these forms, depends upon the resemblance of a president or a governor to a monarch; of an American senate, to an hereditary order; and of a house of representatives, to a legislating nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.