Thomas Paine: “In the representative system, the reason for everything must publicly appear.”

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.