Thomas Paine's words for Stephen Harper

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and a government without a constitution, is power without a right.[1]

~ Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791

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[1] Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man in Two Classics of the French Revolution (New York: Doubleday, 1989), p. 420 (Chapter 4).