Thomas Paine: “In short, you spend your substance in vain, and impoverish yourselves without a hope.”

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

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

The thing, in many points, contained better principles than those upon which the Government had hitherto been administered; but with respect to the Cour Pleniere, it was no other than a medium through which despotism was to pass, without…

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.