Ebook The Life and Writings of Thomas Paine

I have always considered the present Consti tution of the French Republic the best organized system the human mind has yet produced. But I hope my former colleagues will not be of fended if I Warn them of an error which has slipped into its principle. Equality of the right of suffrage is not maintained. This right is in it connected with a condition on which it ought not to depend; that is, with a proportion of a cer tain tax called direct.