On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.”
Editor's note · Context
Paine asserts in "Rights of Man" that if a government claims the right to alter itself at will, it demonstrates the absence of a genuine constitution.
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