Thomas Paine 
Life and Writings of Thomas Paine 
Containing a Biography

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.