To restore, therefore, parents to their children, and children to their parents relations to each other, and man to society--and to exterminate the monster aristocracy, root and branch--the French Constitution has destroyed the law of Primogenitureship.
Paine praises the French Constitution for abolishing primogeniture, seeing it as a necessary step to restore natural family bonds and dismantle aristocracy.
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