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Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us. Conquest may be effected under the pretence of friendship; and ourselves, after a long and brave resistance, be at last cheated into slavery.
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COMMON SENSE: ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA; On the following interesting SUBJECTS, I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with concise Remarks on the English Constitution. II. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. III. Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs. Of the present Ability of America, with some ...
Common Sense, was wholly Franklin's notion. Franklin and Paine were both born near the bottom rungs of Anglo-American society. Both had acquired an advanced education by their own efforts, and both believed in cultivating an elegant and stylish simplicity as an outward manifestation
How did Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense convince reluctant Americans to abandon the goal of reconciliation with Britain and accept that separation from Britain — independence — was the only option for preserving their liberty? Understanding. By January 1776, the American colonies were in open rebellion against Britain.
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Common Sense On the Origin and Purposes of Government SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants,
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In Common Sense, Paine not only provided clear, material arguments for separation, he articulated the revolutionaries' sense of mission: to be free at home and to serve as an example to the world.
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the good people of this country are grievously oppessed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.
