Nothing of monarchy appears in any part of it, except in the name which William the Conqueror imposed upon the English, that of obliging them to call him "Their Sovereign Lord the King.
In "Rights of Man," Paine asserts that the actual functioning of English local government shows no monarchical influence beyond titular obligations.
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