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To the French he declared : ' Your constitution was suspended before it was perfected ; but you had the elements of a constitution very nearly as good as could be wished . ' In his Letter of 1791 he wrote : ' I am constantly of opinion ...
To the French he declared : ' Your constitution was suspended before it was perfected ; but you had the elements of a constitution very nearly as good as could be wished . ' In his Letter of 1791 he wrote : ' I am constantly of opinion ...
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Paine took his stand on what he regarded as man's inalienable rights , and on the absurdities and anachronisms which he thought existed in the British constitution of the time . What had happened in 1688 could happen again , for ' that ...
Paine took his stand on what he regarded as man's inalienable rights , and on the absurdities and anachronisms which he thought existed in the British constitution of the time . What had happened in 1688 could happen again , for ' that ...
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For the same reason he was opposed to a country receiving a fixed constitution , and he was not at all impressed by the work of constitution - making which was going on in France . Men needed the principles of equality and justice ...
For the same reason he was opposed to a country receiving a fixed constitution , and he was not at all impressed by the work of constitution - making which was going on in France . Men needed the principles of equality and justice ...
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Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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