Thomas Paine
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I · the author
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Political writer named as son of a small tradesman.
The political writer who was at the time producing the most marked effect was Thomas Paine (1737-1809), son of a small tradesman.
Common Sense
The author and primary speaker of Common Sense, arguing against monarchy and hereditary succession
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature which no art can overturn, viz.
An enquiry into the constitutional errors in the English form of government, is at this time highly necessary;
However it is needless to spend much time in exposing the folly of hereditary right, if there are any so weak as to believe it, let them promiscuously worship the Ass and Lion and welcome.