Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
A French bastard landing with an armed banditti and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original.Read in Books4Free →
Against Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
From Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Paine condemns monarchy as contrary to nature, scripture, and reason, and ridicules hereditary succession as an insult to posterity exemplified by the bastard origins of England's royal line.
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
Uses 1 Samuel 8 to show God's disapproval of kings: 'that we may be like all the nations' was a sinful demand.
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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an ass for a lion.Read in Books4Free →
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