The Right to Vote | Thomas Paine Denied His Own Vote

He walked to the polling station in New Rochelle, New York. He had argued for the rights of man — for the principle that rights belong to all people by birth, not by permission. The clerks looked at him and asked what country claimed his citizenship. They turned him away. Thomas Paine — the man who had argued natural rights before two revolutions — was denied his vote by the republic he had helped to create. Album II of the Paine-Burke Cycle: The Age of Reason.    • Thomas Paine - Act 2 - The Age of Reason -...