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fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Chief Justice Roberts Explains Why Thomas Paine Would LOVE Presidential Immunity And Troops Patrolling Streets, Actually - Above the Law

If there's one figure in American history who would not stand for any of the present nonsense, it'd be Thomas Paine. The revolutionary pamphleteer hated the idea of monarchs trampling on people behind the veil of absolute immunity so much that he followed up the American Revolution by rolling over to France and getting elected to the revolutionary government without knowing how to speak French.
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fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

The American Experiment

Thomas Paine briefly edited The Pennsylvania Magazine in 1775, criticized British magazines, resigned, then wrote Common Sense; the July 1776 issue contains idiosyncratic, varied content.
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