America is presumed to be the land of the free. Is it not? Freedom and equality are both so different from each other. Independence is when people can do what they want under a set of laws, while equality is where people have the same exact rights of everyone else. In the passage of Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine, he explains his characterization of American and how they hold true today. Although some specifics of Paine’s U.S. characterization still hold true, America is no longer a nation that focuses on the right of man. Thomas Paine’s characterization of America is that he feels the government listens to people on what they have to say. This is not true because even though the Declaration of Independence