[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.
Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1950). “1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786”
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