Urged by principle, then, or excited by self-interest, the proposers of new measures were strong.
"The Siege of Boston"
Allen French
In both these overtures it was clear that the impulse of the proposers was towards any form of government rather than republican.
"The Parisians, Book 11."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
But being informed that Demetrius resented this as a great indignity, they not only rescinded in alarm the former order, but put some of the proposers and advisers of it to death and banished others, and furthermore enacted and decreed, that whatsoever king Demetrius should in time to come ordain, should be accounted right towards the gods and just towards men; and when one of the better class of citizens said Stratocles must be mad to use such words, Demochares of Leuconoe observed, he would be a fool not to be mad.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh