Thomas Paine: “The whole condition of America was thus put into the hands of the Parliament or the Ministry, without leaving to her the…”

The animosity of the English nation, it is very well remembered, ran high; and, had the true principles of Liberty been as well understood then as they now promise to be, it is probable the Nation would not have patiently submitted to so…

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

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

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