Tom Paine reminds you that some arguments matter, it is important to win them, and that the written word may help. He answered Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) with his Rights of Man (1791). Mary Wollstonecraft pitched in too. What times those were! Paine believed that good government representative democracy - was a matter of - common sense – and that monarchy, aristocracy, or any system based on precedent and heredity, was an odious nonsense.
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