As the principle on which constitutions are now formed rejects all hereditary pretensions to government, it also rejects all that catalogue of assumptions known by the name of prerogatives.
From 'Rights of Man,' this passage asserts that modern constitutional principles inherently oppose hereditary rule and governmental prerogatives.
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