Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was a visionaire that the world could one day be controlled by democracy. This post will help you to understand who Thomas Paine was and what he went through during his life. He expressed that the power was in the people and not in the kings, parliaments, and governments that claimed to have the power. He told in The Rights of Man that man was allowing, he used the word "consent", themselves to be controlled by the powers that be, or at least by the rules that they left. He was an advocate for the common man. His true commitment to reach the common man was one of the things that gave him the edge against his elitist competition. This showed by him selling his writing cheaply so more people read his works and his ideas became rapidly widespread. This newly acquired audience drew much attention to man's rights, but it also limited Paine's rights in doing so. Paine risked imprisonment throughout much of his later life due to his writings. His writings were, as stated above, for the common man and they did not speak well of the elite and their alike. At the end of his life he could not return to England or he would be imprisoned, so he sailed to America to live out the rest of his life in 1792.