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Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."
Born in Thetford, in the English county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense

He denounced the King and aristocrasts as frauds and parasites. He wanted the common people to elect everyone in the goverment. Thomas Paine depicked the King as the enemy, not Parliament. He hated the rigid class structure of britan for smothering the hopes of the poor who had no titles. He argued that a republic would award those who worked hard, instead of inheriting your power or priviledges.