1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. Prayer and Prayer Meetings He was at first an

He was at first an Arminian

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He helped form the ABCFM and

Because of his legal work as a prominent banker and MP

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1795 THOMAS PAINE. Dissertation on the First Principles of Government + First Edition Speech. Rare. Prayer and Prayer Meetings He was at first anWritten and published in July 1795, the Dissertation on the First Principles of Government abides as the culmination of Thomas Paine's thinking on democratic theory, in which he openly advocates for universal (though still male only) suffrage. Paine had just barely survived imprisonment during the French Reign of Terror, watched colleagues guillotined, and was retrieved in a desperately ill state by James Monroe. He recovered well enough to write this