Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.