1. What was so revolutionary about Common-Sense when it was first written in 1775?

When Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, he dared the colonists to rise against one of the worlds greatest empires and encouraged them to build their new nation as a democratic republic. Paine argued in Common Sense that the colonies should pursue complete independence from Britain (Paine, 1776). His pamphlet persuaded many people who were dubious about the wars aim and influenced the views of laypeople and legislators alike. Common Sense was therefore revolutionary and instrumental in moving public opinion in the United States against Britain, and it was also a major element in the colonies choice to fight for complete independence.

2. What is still revolutionary about the work globally today concerning the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Paines Common Sense remains revolutionary because history has shown that some governments and individuals continue to oppose the concept of universal human rights. Paine started the concepts of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in a simple and approachable fashion. Common Sense promoted ideas like liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government,...

The 30 Articles involving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are based on the function...…white mens median weekly earnings, it may take even longer for African American women (36%) and Latinas (31.9%) to narrow the gap.

Another area where human rights can be balanced is the reproduction of justice and attaining the same. Many womens reproductive rights supporters have realized that denying reproductive health care to exclusively women is a kind of sex discrimination, as seen by the 835 legislation restricting womens reproductive rights implemented by states since 1995 and those passed at the federal level. If womens access is constrained by a further tightening of abortion rights and maybe an outright ban approved by the conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court, the issue is more pressing.…