The Despotism of Parliament

Hamilton answers by reviving the "internal" Royalist critique of the parliamentarian theory, familiar to us from the writings of Charles I, Digges, and Hobbes:

I will go farther, and assert, that the authority of the British Parliament over America, would, in all probability, be a more intolerable and excessive species of despotism than an absolute monarchy. The power of an absolute prince is not temporary, but perpetual. He is under no temptation to purchase the favour of one part of his dominions, at the expense of another; but, it is his interest to treat them all, upon the same footing. Very different is the case with regard to the Parliament. The Lords and Commons both, have a private and separate interest to pursue.

--Eric Nelson, The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014), 102.