Thomas Paine Human Rights Summary

a. What Paine sees as the global significance of the American struggle for independence is human rights. Human rights here is also included the right to be free from monarchy that also means to be free from British empire. Paine insisted that, as “a membership in the British empire, was a burden to the colonies, not a benefit.” Paine believe that if we were free from British empire, “the colonies could for the first time trade freely with the entire world and insulate themselves from involvement in the endless imperial wars of Europe”(Foner 153).

a. As an English-born Episcopal minister, Jonathan Boucher against American Revolution. Boucher convinced that “obedience to government is every man’s duty, because it is every man’s interest, and