Word: neoroyalist
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...VIRGINIA PLAN TO BE SCUTTLED AS SMALL STATES BALK. Madison recalled seeing George Washington in deep conversation with two reporters at Robert Morris' party last night. Was Garrulous George the "influential Virginian" who was "privately pressing for compromise"? Madison turned to the editorial page. There George Shrill, his favorite neoroyalist columnist, was quoting Thucydides in the original Greek to argue that the 13 states needed the firm hand of a minor German princeling as monarch to quell "the unseemly clamor of mobocracy." A gossip item on the entertainment page provided Madison with his only chuckle of the morning: a Harrisburg...
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