y
form of government in such circumstances can long
be preserved."--Let. 35.

"The multitude in all countries are patient to a
certain point. Ill usage may rouse their
indignation and hurry them into excesses, but the
original fault is in government.

"The ruin or prosperity of a state depends so much
upon the administration of its government, that to
be acquainted with the merit of a ministry, we
need only observe the condition of the
people."--Let. 1.

"If _conscience_ plays the tyrant it would be
greatly for the benefit of the world that she were
more arbitrary and far less placable than some men
find her."--Let. 27.

"I lament the unhappy _necessity_ whenever it
arises of providing for the safety of the state by
a temporary invasion of the personal liberty of
the subject."--Let. 58.

"Junius feels and acknowledges the evil in the
most express terms, and will show himself ready to
concur in any rational plan that may provide for
the liberty of the individual without hazarding
the safety of the community."--Let. 63.

Mr. Paine now proceeds to form a government upon an ideal plan, and show
the origin of those first principles which would operate in the first
peopling of a country. "But as nothing but heaven is impregnable to
vice," the natural restraints of society will not be sufficient to check
it; this will necessitate the establishment of a government. At first,
the whole colony may deliberate, and in the first parliament every man
will have a seat. But as the colony increases this can not be done,
because inconvenience prohibits it. He now observes:

_Common Sense._

"This will point out the convenience of their
consenting to leave the legislative part to be
managed by a select number chosen from the whole
body, who are supposed to have the same interests
at stake which those have who appointed them, and
who will act in the same manner as the whole body
would were they present. If the colony continue
increasing, it will become necessary to augment
the number of representatives; and that the
interest of e