“There never did, there never will, and there never can,
\nexist a Parliament, or any description of men,
\nin any country, possessed of the right or the power
\nof binding or controlling posterity to the “end of Time”,
\nor of commanding forever how the world shall be governed,
\nor who shall govern it; and therefore all such clauses,
\nacts or declarations by which the makers of them
\nattempt to do which they have neither the right nor the power
\nto do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void.
\nEvery age and generation must be as free to act for itself
\nin all cases as the ages and generations which proceeded it.
\nThe vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave
\nis the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
\nMan has no property in man; neither has any generation
\na property in the generations which are to follow.”
\nTom Paine.
\nIslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding or controlling posterity to the “end of Time”, or of commanding forever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore … Continue reading “Paine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-874","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}