Thomas Paine: “Is the case so strangely altered, that those who once thought we could not live without them, are now brought to declare…”

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

The object is not so much the produce of the tax as the justice of the measure.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.