Thomas Paine: “They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of Nations: and while they appear…”

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

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

In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

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…