The Imagery of a Constitution
Thomas Paine remarks, “A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and government is only the creature of a constitution…It is the body of elements , to which you can refer, and quote article by article; which contains the principles on which the government shall be established.” Thomas Paine endorses a written constitution which can be forthrightly referred. Articles assimilated in the constitution should unambiguously frame the foundations and powers of the government. A constitution which is unrecorded would confound the course of reference due to the absence of chronicled codes. For a constitution to be actual, it should be perceptible and discernible.
The Imagery of Rights
Thomas Paine explicates, “Natural rights are those which pertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the natural rights of others.-Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation, some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are those which relate to security and protection.” Manifestly, natural rights are vital for all surviving humans; they bear the obligation of not encumbering other people’s rights. Civil rights warranty suave coexistence with other humans.
