Thomas Paine: “The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and…”

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

The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…