Paine’s Personal Involvement In The American War Of Independence And The French Revolution, And Other Countries Influenced By His Ideas
It is well known that Paine came close to losing the fight to establish democracy within the ruling circles in the American Colonies, because of the wish of John Adams, an American Federalist Congressman, who wanted to have a monarchy in the new United States of America. Paine would never have accepted this, because, to him, democracy was everything.