LEONARDO DELATORRE LEITE

The central aim of this research is to clarify the relationship between Republic and Democracy in Thomas Paine's thought. In this way, the author's argumentative effort to establish a pertinent correspondence between republican government and the democratic regime will be addressed. In addition, the thinker played an important role in establishing compatibility between the mechanism of political representation and democratic values, using a work of "re-signification", reconfiguring the definition of democracy to make it compatible with representation. In this sense, political representation would appear as a constitutive element of the democratic regime. This posture of "reconceptualization" has given a new tone, with traces of originality, to the contemporary political debate. In view of this, the research aims to analyze Paine's arguments in favor of an association between Republic and Democracy, also elucidating the impact of his writings in the context of the "Age of Revolutions".