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Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine
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Paine's Rights of Man (1791) answered Burke by insisting each generation has the right to remake its government, and its second part proposed old-age pensions and child allowances funded by taxation. That made him an early bridge between rights talk and welfare provision.
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