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  • political institutions should promotoe individual rights and social equality
  • critqued organized religion
  • the government should serve the people
  • wrote the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls” during civil war
  • people have the inherit right to reform and/or dismantle oppresive goverments
  • all individuals possess inalienable rights (human rights basically)

That’s what I gather from his wiki and some chatgpt queries. Never heard of him before (not an american) but honestly — I’m a big fan now.

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Sounds nice enough, but not really like an outsider position among the Founding Fathers. OP seemed to be saying that Paine differed substantially from the others in some way, which I would be interested to learn about (not American either, I only have cursory knowledge of the Founding Fathers).

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Paine was far more radical than the rest of them, and wrote scathing critiques of them that caused him to become extremely unpopular before he died.

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Didn’t all the founding fathers and every president since then say all of the above?

We need to praise people more by what they do, than what they say I reckon

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