Summary Of Rights Of Man By Thomas Paine

When our founding Fathers created America, they intended for it to be a country full of diversity and equal opportunities. In Rights of Man (1791) by Thomas Paine, a popular pamphleteer in the late 1700s, Paine characterized America as a “union” of a diverse people with no extra privileges for the rich and a “just government”. Paine’s characterization still holds partially true today, because America is a diverse nation filled with different nationalities and religions; however, his claims that all experience equal opportunities and that the government is just no longer apply because inequalities in opportunities and treatment of different groups exist today. In America, the rich and poor have different opportunities and consequences in areas such as the
Different classes face different penalties for the same crimes. For example, a teenager was drinking while driving and hit and killed four people. In court, his attorneys pleaded that he had “affluenza”, a condition rich kids experience when they have access to too much wealth, and the teen got a reduced sentence. However, if any other person were to have committed the same crime, they would likely face an upwards of 10 years in prison with charges such as manslaughter. Another example is when celebrities get caught with illegal substances, they do not face legal punishment. Instead, they just have to go to a rehabilitation program. However, if someone from a low-income family were to be caught with the same substances, they would go jail. There is a similar difference in the schooling system. Students from higher- income families