Delegate Edmund Randolph warned thata single executive would be the "foetus of monarchy," while GeorgeMason decried it as an invitation to tyranny. Washington, who maintained a studied silence ...

Delegate Edmund Randolph warned that a single executive would be the "foetus of monarchy," while George Mason decried it as an invitation to tyranny. Washington, who maintained a studied ...

Others believed, as Edmund Randolph put it during debate, that a unitary executive would be “the fetus of monarchy.” Amid public concerns that the crafters of the Constitution would create a monarchy, ...