Thomas Paine: “In addition to this, it may be remarked, that men who study any universal science, the principles of which are…”

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

They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.

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

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.