"In the first part of 'Rights of Man'……" — Thomas Paine

In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to… - Thomas Paine
"In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them."

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