Thomas Paine in ‘Common Sense’: ‘In free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other’

Thomas Paine in ‘Common Sense’: ‘In free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2023 [The following excerpts are from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Originally published in 1776, which lays out Paine’s theory for why the American colonies should declare independence.] Why should we think that some people are born to be rulers and some born to be subjects? “[T]here is another and greater […]