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This 3-page paper an essay about different attitudes toward the English monarchy. Compared are "An Independent Reflector" and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to two major factors. First, there is freedom from tyranny, or a despotic rule. The second involves freedom to do what one wants to improve ones lot in life, without
interference from the state. Though the Independent Reflector on Limited Monarchy and Liberty was released in 1752 in New York, while Thomas Paine penned his own views on freedom in
his immortal treatise "Common Sense" more than two decades later in Philadelphia, the messages are the same, though the philosophies are different. While the article in the Independent Reflector is
almost gleeful about the fact that the Colonies are under the "benign" rule of a limited Monarchy, Paines treatise is almost scornful about that same method of rule.
Whats interesting to note here is that the author of the Independent Reflector (commonly thought to be Edward Livingston, editor of the New York
Magazine where the article appeared) was written in Britain, which, at the time, was ruled by what he considered to be a "Limited Monarchy," one in which "the pride and
ambition of prices, and their natural Lust for Dominion, are checkd and restrained" (Foner, 2005, p. 78). The author does go on to acknowledge, however, that "absolute" monarchies are horrors
behind horrors, leading to situations in which there is censorship of the press, little education and "goodness trod under foot, truth perverted . . ." and " . . .
fields lie waste and uncultivated . . ." (Foner, 2005, p. 79). Paine doesnt exactly disagree with the Independent Reflectors author. But while
the latter embraces the concept of a limited monarchy ("How signal is our Happiness, in being blessed with a Prince, formd for the Friend of the Nation . . .!"
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