Article II
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:American Presidents
Following the war, Washington quelled a potentially disastrous bid by his own senior officers, organized by his aide Alexander Hamilton, to declare him king and erect a military dictatorship
No one had a better understanding of the Constitution or a better legal mind than Alexander Hamilton.
Looks to me as if he had no IDEA what the Constitution stated and was just going for an entirely different form of government. What, an elected king?
The man who initially made that claim was tracked down and admitted that it was false. When challenged to meet H. at the dueling ground or retract it he retracted it. But this never stopped H.'s enemies from continuing to spread the lie.
H. did at one point under the Confederation consider using the army to pressure congress to pay it the back pay owed. Washington convinced him it was not a good idea.
Of course, your first paragraph is irrelevent since there was no constitution or president at the time of the supposed incident. And the Confederation had essentially collapsed from impotence. It was years before the Constitution and the election of a President.
He did early on think an elected king might be necessary but realized that it was not workable in this country. This idea was dropped when W. was not agreeable and H.'s ideas changed
Please understand what you are posting. Even this little biography clearly shows this "event" happened at the end of the war not five yrs later. To you the author of the Federalist didn't understand the constitution?