​Thomas Paine's, Common Sense, influenced the colonist's ideas and decisions on the revolution and the feelings towards independence. Enlightenment thinkers influenced many of Paine's theories, such as John Locke and Jean- Jacques Rousseau. He begins with general reflections about government and religion and then progresses onto the details of the colonial situation. Paine states a distinction between government and society. Government is an ... be a future ruler. Hereditary succession had brought an uncountable amount of evils. These evils range from things such as kings to corruption to c...

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