Common Sense
As the year 1776 began in the American colonies, tension with King George III’s England was at perhaps an all-time high. Americans were frustrated with the actions of their rulers overseas. Taxes and trade restrictions had been placed on them, and British and mercenary soldiers occupied their towns and cities. There had even been fighting at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. As America grew, England’s hold on it tightened, and a few voices began speaking of independence. The loudest and most convincing of these belonged to Thomas Paine, born in England and living in Philadelphia. His pamphlet, Common Sense, expressed the argument for American independence in a way no one had before and had a great influence on the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine had only lived in America for two years when he began writing Common Sense, but that was enough for him to witness the oppression of the British. 1.Of the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English Constitution: Section I of Thomas Paines, Common Sense he expresses his feelings on society and government. He believed that society and government had different origins. Society in terms is founded by o
In section III, he explains how America and Britain will flourish together, and that America would have flourished even more then Britain had the other European countries not had anything to do with it. Thomas Paine adds humor and utter sarcasm when he states, "No man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honorable one. A French bastard landing with an armed banditti and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original." Those who claim that England began through kingship (in William the Conqueror) in some honorable way missed out on this. He stated that William the Conqueror was a French man and therefore most the decedents from England are from France, so England should be controlled by the French. He believed also, that America and Great Britain should be separated, and America had all the resources to build a great country and navy with all the raw materials that most other countries had to import. The profits of America should be worth it in itself to expand and create a mass industrial age of building new things. The ability to build ships and fleets with guns and all of it not being nearly as costly. He also stated his idea for a determined declaration if independence. He first stated that other countries needed to step in and become a mediator in times of war, unless it was between Britain
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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