Thomas Paine: “It is authority against authority all the way, till we come to the divine origin of the rights of man at the creation.”

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

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.

An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author.