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What Is The Attitude Of Jonathan Boucher's Understanding Towards Freedom
1)Thomas Paine though that the rights of man included the right to be free from monarch. He supported other revolutions, including the French one and was somewhat presented to it. 2) Jonathan Boucher, an English-born episcopal minster preached in Virginia from 1759 to 1775. In 1775 he opposed American independence. Boucher convinced that obedience to government was every man’s duty, because it was everyman’s interest, and it was enjoyed by the positive commands of God. He wrote that when Christians were disobedient to human ordinances, they were disobedient to God as well. 3) The both have different understanding towards freedom Jonathan Boucher believes that freedom is to be independent and to be colonized. And they thought that being free

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