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Thomas Paine: That monarchy is all a bubble, a mere court artifice to procure money, is evident (at least to me) in every character in…

On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
That monarchy is all a bubble, a mere court artifice to procure money, is evident (at least to me) in every character in which it can be viewed.
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Thomas Paine

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Paine asserts that monarchy is fundamentally a deceptive scheme designed by courts to extract wealth from the populace.

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