Pitt, on all national questions, so far as they refer to the House of Commons, absorbs the rights of the Nation into the organ, and makes the organ into a Nation, and the Nation itself into a cypher.
Paine criticizes William Pitt's political actions, arguing that he concentrated national rights within the House of Commons, effectively nullifying the nation's power.
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