Oath Keepers was founded in March 2009 by Stewart Rhodes. Rhodes is a Yale Law School graduate, a former US Army paratrooper, and a former staffer of Republican Congressman Ron Paul.
Introduction. England-born political philosopher and writer Thomas Paine (1737-1809) helped shape many of the ideas that marked the Age of Revolution. Published in 1776, his highly popular âCommon Senseâ was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.
Thomas Paine is extremely crucial in the American revolution because of his pamphlet Common Sense. It was a strongly worded call for independence from great Britain. Paine opposed monarchy and called King George a Pharaoh.