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"Patrick Henry in June 1788, and Thomas Jefferson said, in a letter to Thomas Paine ... "The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts."Theophilus Parsons, a leading supporter of the ...

Anona Lee, a tenant at Thomas Paine Square Apartments, making public comment in front the Board of Supervisors on April 22. Photo by Xueer Lu. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense – “the cement of the 1776 Revolution” - referred to King George III as “the hardened, sullen-tempered Pharaoh of England.” Moreover, as documented by ...

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings ... may have been acquainted with the facts earlier than the American public in general.” ...

If common sense is background music for American politics, Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet provides the title track. Paine said he would rely on “nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...

The term “United States of America” was first used by Thomas Paine in his now-famous Common Sense writings that were critical in uniting the colonies against British rule. The phrase was a ...

Propagandist Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense” and became a hero of the American Revolution. He later penned a book called The Age of Reason arguing against Christianity.

Indeed, It is doubtful, historians believe, that Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence would have found such fertile ground among the American public without the efforts of Paine. Thomas Paine ...