History Today, March 1st, 2003
THOMAS PAINE, the great radical, democrat and secularist, died in Greenwich Village, New York, on June 8th, 1809, and each year, on the nearest Saturday to June 8th, members of the Thomas Paine Society (TPS) gather at noon at the statue of Paine in his birthplace (in 1737) at Thetford, Norfolk, for a short ceremony, followed either by a conducted tour of the town or by a public meeting. In 2002, for the year of the Royal Jubilee, this took the form of a debate between a republican and a monarchist. Thomas Paine was an outspoken republican and his arguments in support of republicanism are oft...
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