Thomas Paine was sentenced in absentia to hanging for seditious libel for a pamphlet about this event, The Rights of Man, which was written in response to 'Reflections' by Edmund Burke opposing this event's radicalism

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1. Thomas Paine was sentenced in absentia to hanging for seditious libel for a pamphlet about this event, The Rights of Man, which was written in response to 'Reflections' by Edmund Burke opposing this event's radicalism