Widows will have a maintenance for their children, and not be carted away, on the death of their husbands, like culprits and criminals; and children will no longer be considered as increasing the distresses of their parents.
Paine outlines the benefits of his social plan, ensuring widows and children receive support and are not treated as burdens or criminals.
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There ought, therefore, to be in every nation a method of occasionally ascertaining the state of public opinion with respect to government.
The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.
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