Author name: Alfred F. Young

American political cartoon “The Providential Detection” depicts Thomas Jefferson attempting to destroy the Constitution supported by Satan, the writings of Paine, and French philosophers. Artist unknown and published sometime around 1797-1800. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society – Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

“Rights of Man” in America

Alfred F. Young / January 1, 1991

The Rights of Man won an audience in the 1790’s because the Federalists in power moved away from accommodation towards coercion. Federalists strung the “strings” which Rights of Man could “vibrate”.

Edmund Burke, Methodists, The Bonneville Family and Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine in New Rochelle, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

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