Thomas Paine: “All the miscarriages of Britain have arisen from this defect.”

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

War is their trade, plunder and revenue their objects.

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.

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