Thomas Paine: “Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself.”

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.

The aristocracy has screened itself too much, and this serves to restore a part of the lost equilibrium.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.