Chris Manguno AP English III April 2, 2014 1st Period American?society today is quite different from the time when the republic was established.??Thomas Paine wrote about the characteristics of American society around when the constitution was signed.??He declared it a place where arguments should have been crazy, but, instead, ?cordial unison? was present.??Today, many individuals still consider America united; sadly naivety guides this presumption.??He also wrote about how a government based on the ?rights of man? made that unison possible; the reference to the ?rights of man? should be better known as Natural Law. The general government applies Natural Law to their practices in very few cases, anymore.