“Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations that precede it”: Thomas Paine and the “Jefferson Problem”

• In Event: American Political Thought

Brief Overview

I consider how Thomas Paine addresses "the Jefferson problem." Paine said that “we have the power to begin the world over again.” Did this injunction only apply to a revolutionary generation?

Author

• Mark S Jendrysik, University of North Dakota