The military is the most centralist of all institutions and permanent alliances, standing armies, and the permanent military footing which tends to accompany such a policy is injurious, he said, to our republicanformofgovernment.
It is therefore not surprising that whether to make provision for impeachment of the president became the focus of contention, especially in the context of concern whether, in our new republicanformofgovernment, the legislator ought to be entrusted with such a power.