• A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

    Thomas Paine: A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
    Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.68, Rowman & Littlefield