tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post7091196107827172042..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Thomas Paine and the American RevolutionBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-48503145813076394192013-03-09T01:38:14.701-07:002013-03-09T01:38:14.701-07:00Heh, Ray. This only reinforces the previous argume...Heh, Ray. This only reinforces the previous argument that Paine is interesting and attractive to modern historians because he's so ideologically attractive to them.<br /><br />Roger Sherman, a modest Christian family man, was a far larger and greater figure in the American Founding than Tom Paine ever was. Sherman helped write the declaration of Independence, helped write the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Then he went home to his family.<br /><br />Admittedly boring. Again, pardon my Wiki:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Sherman<br /><br /><i>He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S.: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson said of him: "That is Mr. Sherman, of Connecticut, a man who never said a foolish thing in his life."</i><br /><br />As much as I like him, not a word of that could be said of Thomas Paine. It's Roger Sherman's name that should be known to every American before Thomas Paine's.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com