Thomas Paine: “Filled with these high ideas, nothing could be more insolent towards America than the language of the British court on…”

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.

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…

Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, and the treaty of alliance between France and America, which recognised the natural rights of man, and justified resistance to oppression.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.