If, therefore, Royal Authority is a Great Seal, it consequently is in itself nothing; and a good Constitution would be of infinitely more value to the Nation than what the three Nominal Powers, as they now stand, are worth.
Paine argues that if royal authority is merely symbolic, then a sound constitution is far more valuable to the nation than the current system of three nominal powers.
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