“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

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 ...

Time, Wilkinson warned, is running out on American democracy. His words call on his colleagues on the Supreme Court, ...

a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 with his pamphlet Common Sense. So bold was its rhetoric that many delegates thought the ...