On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
Prop it as you please, it continually sinks into court government, and ever will.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “Prop it as you please, it continually sinks into court government, and ever will.”
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Paine argues that a fundamentally flawed government will always devolve into self-serving rule, despite attempts to reform it.
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