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