America At 250: The Words That Helped Ignite A Revolution
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The claim discusses a well-documented historical event involving Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and its role in the American Revolution, which is widely covered and understood with clear facts and mainstream historical consensus.
America At 250: The Words That Helped Ignite A Revolution Authored by Gene Pisasale, via RealClearWire, “... a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy .... To the evil of monarchy we have added hereditary succession ... the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves ... the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity.” - Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” On Jan. 10, 1776, Robert Bell did something that could have landed him in priso...