On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
The object, in all such preliminary proceedings, is to find out what the general sense of a nation is, and to be governed by it.
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Thomas Paine
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Editor's note · Context
From "Rights of Man," Paine describes the aim of initial political processes as discerning and adhering to the collective will of the nation.
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