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A 4 page review on “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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War and the independence of the nation and its people. Intended as a piece of propaganda, for the most part, Thomas Paines pamphlet brought people together, and offered solid direction
in the struggle for independence. The following paper analyzes and reviews this work of Paine. Common Sense by Thomas Paine In first examining his work we look at how
others have perceived him, and this particular work. According to Thomas Edison, "He was the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible" and "In Common Sense Paine flared forth
with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable" (Edison, 1925). Another author indicates that, "Three years after its publication, Paine reflected that the importance of [Common Sense] was
such that if it had not appeared, and at the exact time it did, the Congress would not now be sitting where they are [representing independent states]" (Smith, 2005).
There is little doubt, in the work of historians, and people who were alive during Paines time, that he was "a driving force in the Atlantic-Democratic revolution of the late
18th century, personifying the political currents that linked American independence, the French Revolution and British radicalism" (Belchem, 2005). He expressed his conviction of possibilities in the work and although he
was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, for any particular party or individual (smith, 2005).
In his work Paine writes: "I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art
can overturn, viz., that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered" (Paine, 1982; 68). In this we
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