Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
- Source
- Common Sense
- Date
- 1776
Meaning of “We have it in our power to begin…”
Political change is framed as a rare opportunity to build institutions deliberately rather than merely inherit arrangements from the past.
Where does it come from?
Common Sense (1776), Appendix, validated Wikisource scan leaf 48 / printed page 40. Paine argues that independence creates an opportunity to form a new constitution and writes that Americans have it in their power to begin the world over again.
