From the Revolutions of America and France, and the symptoms that have appeared in other countries, it is evident that the opinion of the world is changing with respect to systems of Government, and that revolutions are not within the compass of political calculations.
In "Rights of Man," Paine observes that the American and French Revolutions demonstrate a global shift in attitudes towards government systems, making future revolutions unpredictable.
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The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.
Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.
In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.
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