On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
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.
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Thomas Paine
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Paine analyzes how the introduction of a new governmental structure subtly eroded the traditional, ancient authority of the existing system.
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