People :
Author : Thomas Paine
: Dissertations on First Principles of Government
Text :
...there cannot be a right in any to establish government by hereditary succession, because it would be supposing itself possessed of a right superior to the rest, namely, that of commanding by its own authority how the world shall be hereafter governed, and who shall govern it.
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