In 1793, the Aurora General Advertiser published an article criticizing monarchy as an outdated and corrupt system built on hereditary privilege and moral inequality.
Declaring that true freedom and civic virtue could only exist in a republic governed by reason and the consent of the people, not by the will of the monarchy, it echoed the growing sentiment of the era: no kings.
The writer warned that “where one man is born to rule, a nation is born to serve.”
