Thomas Paine: “All we want to shut out is disaffection, and, that excluded, we must accept from each other such duties as we are best…”

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

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.