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Thomas Paine event coming up May 4th in Philly: https://t.co/jhrdGYuCDW

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Bosc clarified at the 3rd ICTPS: “Liberty is not only individual, it is both conceived as an attribute of the person and as a social relation.”

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“The right of voting . . . is naturally linked to the word liberty, that is, to the equality of personal rights.” from Agrarian Justice - Marchands translation.

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The note reads: "A beginning perhaps - Original with Jefferson - Copied from original with T. P.'s permission." There was only one "T. P." in Philadelphia who could have participated in the Declaration's drafting- Thomas Paine. #founders #Declaration #ThomasPaine

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We were excited to announce the discovery of a newly authenticated document at this past weekend's @ITPS Conference, #RevTextsDigAge. It's a draft copy (dated June 24, 1776) of the Declaration of Independence in John Adams's hand, with a fascinating note. See thread below...

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"Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime."

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"It is monarchical and aristocratical governments, only, that require ignorance for their support."

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The people have a right to abolish any form of government, and establish such as accords with its interest, disposition, and happiness.

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Banning religious minorities is not "common sense". Common Sense said make America "an asylum for mankind" for refugees from injustice.

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"There is too much common sense and independence in America to be long the dupe of any faction, foreign or domestic." Paine, 1802

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"When humanity is violated, patience is exhausted." (Thomas Paine, 1807)

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Part of the ideology of the American Revolution was Paine's "prepare in time an asylum for mankind."

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Reactionists have always used false "facts" to con an unaware people, "Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it." - Paine

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The concept of majority rule starts with Paine.The elect. coll. was set up to appease slave states. "Time makes more converts than reason."

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For a great article see: https://t.co/rER8Z5bjL4

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...any throughout the dominions.”

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... opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of ...

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.. early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little...

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“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are ...

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We have it in our Power to begin the World over again.
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