Thomas Paine: “This being the case, the bill of rights is more properly a bill of wrongs, and of insult.”

He must now show that every one in the line of hereditary succession was a Solomon, or his title is not good to be a king.

It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.

Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?

But the spirit of the nation was not to be overcome, and it was so fully sensible of the strong ground it had taken--that of withholding taxes--that it contented itself with keeping up a sort of quiet resistance, which effectually…