Shaun Miller
American History
October 19, 2017
Common Sense of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine argued for the separation of the British colonies. He wanted each of the colonies to weigh equally to each other. He focused on their capabilities they could perform. Thomas Paine also argued over several main points during his time. These main points were over independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic.
Thomas explained that every colony has very little gain if the colony is still with the Britain. He had a significant problem with the government in England, especially the king and the monarchy at that time on how they treated the people in the colonies. He went to say that Britain was protecting the colonies not to keep them safe, but to protect them for their own financial gain. Because the condition of the Britain colony with other countries, made the colonies around britain to become a target and make enemies, because they were under the British control. Thomas Paine said “The king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy”. Paine had a thought that a country was a place where anyone and everyone had equal rights, but according to what was going on, no one did. Most of the colonists complained that the king was not doing his job preventing tyranny with the cruel rules from the government going around. This is when Paine stepped in and gave his thoughts and views on what was going on and what should be happening. He wanted freedom to America because he knew that that was the only way to freedom for the colonies in Britain. [footnoteRef:0] Thomas Paine had hoped the people more comfortable to the idea of being free in America. One way by this is, he convinced them that America would have to separate. His writing on human equality were to make right and justify with the United States government. He knew that the British government was cruel and unfair because of the hereditary monarchy.[footnoteRef:1] Because he had such a strong argument against the British it created a fueled military moral between them. Also it encouraged the colonists to pursue an independent state that was different from the one they were leaving at the time. Quoted word for word by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison that were on Thomas Paine’s side during the monarchy since they were both inspired by him, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Li...
