To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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