This man discussed increasing public debt and the failings of paper currency in The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. In one work, this thinker advocated giving people ten pounds every year upon turning fifty as a way to combat poverty, and in another he likens Christianity and the Bible to a system of mythology. In addition to Agrarian Justice and The (*) Age of Reason, he wrote a series of articles that begins "These are the times that try men's souls." That series, The American Crisis, was a response to the Revolutionary War, and his most famous work outlined the argument for American independence from Britain. For 10 poin
This man discussed increasing public debt and the failings of paper currency in The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. In one work, this thinker advocated giving people ten pounds every year upon turning fifty as a way to combat poverty, and in another he likens Christianity and the Bible to a system of mythology. In addition to Agrarian Justice and The (*) Age of Reason, he wrote a series of articles that begins "These are the times that try men's souls." That series, The American Crisis, was a response to the Revolutionary War, and his most famous work outlined the argument for American independence from Britain. For 10 points, identify this American pamphleteer who wrote Common Sense.
This man discussed increasing public debt and the failings of paper currency in The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance.
Thomas {Paine}