COMMON SENSE. Of the origin and design of government in ge-neral. With concise remarks on the English constitution. SOME writers have so confounded society with govern-ment, as to leave little or no distinction between them ; whereas they are not…

COMMON SENSE 29 that so far we improve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King ; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use…