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This 3 page paper answers some specific questions about Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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specific questions about his pamphlet "Common Sense." Discussion The document under discussion in this paper is part of a "Common Sense," the pamphlet that Thomas Paine published in 1776.
The excerpt that concerns us is from the second of seven chapters (the whole pamphlet is approximately 65 pages long).1 The historical background of the document is the American
Revolution. At the time Paine wrote, it was by no means certain that American would break from England; we should remember that there were a large number of loyalists
in the colonies who felt that rebellion was treasonous. Despite the uncertainty, Paine could sense that the sympathy was building for rebellion, and in this work he "states that
sooner or later independence from England must come, because America has lost touch with the mother country. In his words, all the arguments for separation of England are based
on nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments and common sense."2 Paine sold more than 500,000 copies of his pamphlet, and his influence on the Declaration of Independence is
obvious.3 The excerpt of the document which concerns us is the section in which Paine discusses the concept of the divine right of kings. The "divine right of kings"
is a European concept of kingship that "extends as far back into European, Middle Eastern, and Northern African history as the practice of monarchy does; as a legitimation of authority,
the idea that monarchs are divinely chosen."4 The monarch, divinely chosen, answers to no one but God. The difficulty for the supporters of this theory, of course, is
that early Christianity was fundamentally anti-political, leaving the question, "If Christ rejects all political actions and institutions, how can one justify having a monarch?"5 Paine takes this idea even further,
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