Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise (Fast 6). This very biting and controversial stance is what characterized Paine's writing. He went on to dismiss the King as a fool, and stated that natural ability is not necessarily related to heredity...
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Paine argued that the colonies existed only for British profit, and that the colonies must unite quickly if they were ever to form a single nation. This latter argument was more than likely influenced by Franklin's famous "Join or Die" cartoon. Finally, Paine argued that the only way to gain the rights desired by the colonists and help from outside powers was to claim total independence...
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Thomas Paine "Not a place upon earth might be as happy as America. Her situation is remote from the entire wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them...	1 / 252
common sense This downgrading of the opposing view is effective in propaganda because now the reader sees reasons not to agree with the other side. Paine does a lot of this in his book...	2 / 365
Thomas Paine All the arguments for separation of England are based on nothing more than the facts and arguments. Paine saw the government as a possessed demon that could only become good when it was represented truthfully and changed by elections...	3 / 753
Common Sense He was chosen because of his well-known skill of legible writing. It was not that the ideas shown of the document those of his own, but the shared ideas of many representatives, who would later on proof-check Thomas' work to make sure no crucial ideas were left out...	2 / 360