It admits not of a separation between knowledge and power, and is superior, as government always ought to be, to all the accidents of individual man, and is therefore superior to what is called monarchy.
In "Rights of Man," Paine contrasts representative government with monarchy, highlighting its inherent stability and integration of knowledge and power.
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