Thomas Paine: “Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their law; and the laws which common usage ordains, have a greater…”

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Why is it that scarcely any are executed but the poor?

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.