How Does America Equate Today?
History is constantly changing over time, we learn things to either educate us about our past or to not let history repeat itself. One of the biggest thing that constantly changes is our country, the United States of America, Thomas Paine writes Rights of a Man (1791) arguing that America is a country where concord is least expected. Although Paine makes a compelling argument it’s hard to look at this country today as a land where “the rights of man” exist? Is it a land where the rich aren’t privileged? He characterizes America as this great country that our government created "on the principles of society and the rights of man," it is able to overcome the differences, however, his description of America in 1791, does not hold true today.
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One of the immense problems in America is that everyone is opinionated, people have different thoughts and way of having their voices be heard, Paine states, “There is nothing to engender riots and tumults.” during 1791 America was still a brand new independent country, riots happened, whether small or big, this country never stood on its feet as one, always in disagreement. Even if we forward a few years ahead, one of the biggest riots, The New York Riot of 1863, this was caused during Lincoln's presidency because the people of the union were now being drafted to fight in the Civil War for a longer amount of time then they were originally supposed to. Even a look at today’s history, there are a lot of riots happening right now because of the election. Riots and protest present an example of …show more content…
While this is true because we form a union to create a government. However, the government we are forming is more favorable to one ethnicity and one race. We all come from different backgrounds we are not able to stand together to make our country a perfect union. We are always fighting for equal racial rights, equal gender rights, and equality in general. Our nation is 241 years old and we still haven’t established Paine's Rights of Man. The America he’s describing is seen as a utopia. America isn’t a country of agreement between people, it’s a country of different
One of the immense problems in America is that everyone is opinionated, people have different thoughts and way of having their voices be heard, Paine states, “There is nothing to engender riots and tumults.” during 1791 America was still a brand new independent country, riots happened, whether small or big, this country never stood on its feet as one, always in disagreement. Even if we forward a few years ahead, one of the biggest riots, The New York Riot of 1863, this was caused during Lincoln's presidency because the people of the union were now being drafted to fight in the Civil War for a longer amount of time then they were originally supposed to. Even a look at today’s history, there are a lot of riots happening right now because of the election. Riots and protest present an example of …show more content…
While this is true because we form a union to create a government. However, the government we are forming is more favorable to one ethnicity and one race. We all come from different backgrounds we are not able to stand together to make our country a perfect union. We are always fighting for equal racial rights, equal gender rights, and equality in general. Our nation is 241 years old and we still haven’t established Paine's Rights of Man. The America he’s describing is seen as a utopia. America isn’t a country of agreement between people, it’s a country of different