Thomas Paine: “This certainly is not the condition that heaven intended for man; and if this be monarchy, well might monarchy be…”

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…

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

The man who is in the receipt of a million a year is the last person to promote a spirit of reform, lest, in the event, it should reach to himself.

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