"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
Use the excerpt to answer the question.
What concern about the Constitution is Patrick Henry expressing?
(1 point)
that a president would need to be ambitious to be successful in office
• that the Constitution has established a monarchy
• that a president has been given too much power
that the Constitution establishes a weak central
government