An Anglo-American political activist, author and revolutionary is praised by the MP who now represents the Sussex town where he lived for six years.
Lib Dem Norman Baker cheered Thomas Paine, author of pamphlets including Common Sense, at the start of the American Revolution, said to have inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
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