When one considers President Donald Trump “gilding” the Oval Office into a throne room, sending armed masked agents into northern cities to frighten those populations into submission and denigrating Supreme Court justices as “lap dogs” because they dared to go against his wishes, it might be a good time for the entire voting population of the United States to remember how the people who created the Constitution felt about rule by monarchy, since they had worked so hard to ensure that America would never again suffer under a king.

• George Washington saw the idea of kingship as an abomination.
• John Adams said that the very definition of a republic is “an empire of laws, and not of men.”
• James Madison feared that a single ruler would use war to consolidate power.
• And, Benjamin Franklin, when asked by a lady what the Constitutional Convention had created, answered in words that call to all of us today: “A republic, madam, if we can keep it.”

No kings.

Dennis Perkins
Winslow