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This 5 page paper discusses Thomas Paine’s Revolutionary War pamphlet “Common Sense” with regard to what he says about reasons for breaking from Britain, and for keeping government simple. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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This paper discusses what other reasons Paine offers, besides "natural right," for declaring independence; and why he advocates keeping government simple. Discussion Tom Paine was not the first to advocate
a break with England, but his rhetoric and the views he expressed so clearly in Common Sense stirred up the colonists like nothing else had done. He offered "simple fact,
plain argument, and common sense" in the pamphlet, which criticized those colonists who "defended their actions by wrapping themselves in the mantle of British traditions" (Faragher et al, 2000, p.
157). But Paine "argued that the British system rested on the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, aristocracy and monarchy, neither of which was appropriate for America" (Faragher et al,
2000, p. 157). The only thing to do was start over again. Natural right: According to Paine, the colonies had a "natural right" to their own government because it was
"wiser and safer" to form a government of their own, while they had the time to think about it coolly, than to trust to time and chance to create the
government (Paine). If they waited, he said, then the government would quite likely be created by malcontents and troublemakers, who would create something that would "sweep away the liberties of
the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, which was the same as returning to tyranny because of what they had done: "There are
thousands, and tens of thousands, who would think it glorious to expel from the continent, that barbarous and hellish power, which hath stirred up the Indians and Negroes to destroy
us" (Paine). He felt it was impossible to be friends with Britain since it could not be trusted; and every day relations between the two countries worsened (Paine). Finally, he
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