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Ideas of Thomas Paine, by Text

[British, 1737 - 1809, Went to America in 1774, and to France after the Revolution of 1789, writing in support of both.]

1792 Rights of Man
Ch.7 p.127 A people, not government, creates a constitution, which is essential for legitimacy