Question

"This Constitution is said to have beautiful features, but . . . they appear to me horribly frightful. . . . Your President may become king . . . If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute!" —Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Convention, June 1788 Question Use the excerpt to answer the question. What concern about the Constitution is Patrick Henry expressing? (1 point) Responses that a president would need to be ambitious to be successful in office that a president would need to be ambitious to be successful in office that the Constitution has established a monarchy that the Constitution has established a monarchy that a president has been given too much power that a president has been given too much power that the Constitution establishes a weak central government

Answer 1

Patrick Henry is expressing the concern that a president has been given too much power. He fears that if the president is ambitious and capable, he could become absolute, thereby threatening the principles of a democratic government and leading to a form of tyranny or monarchy.