Thomas Paine

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He wrote a booklet called Common Sense, which influenced many neutral colonists to take the side of the patriots. With more patriots, many farmers and boys 14 years and older, they had more soldiers including ones the French sent over and Dutch banks loaning us money. Common Sense was a big part of getting the French to help us. With more soldiers at the Battle of Saratoga,

we defeated a small army British soldiers. With those soldiers, we outnumbered the British and launched a surprise attack. As you can tell, Thomas Paine had a huge affect on the Revolutionary War.

It explained the reasons for independence. Apex*

Thomas Paine was referring to those who supported the revolution when it was easy. Being a soldier in winter and a patriot when it was not safe politically didn't count, to him.

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Although not a Christian, Thomas Paine described himself as a Deist; he believed in a God so he was not an atheist.

Paine was, however, extremely critical of the Bible and rejected the notion that one could arrive at truth through revealed scripture. He is sometimes thought of as an atheist by Christians who are unhappy with his views that their religion was "the study of nothing."

author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual

He first published his African Slavery in America, in the spring of 1775, criticizing slavery in America as being unjust and inhumane.

On January 10, 1776 Paine formulated his ideas on American independence in his pamphlet Common Sense.
In his Common Sense, Paine states that sooner or later independence from England must come, because America had lost touch with the mother country. In his words, all the arguments for separation of England are based on nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments and common sense. Government was necessary evil that could only become safe when it was representative and altered by frequent elections.

Due to the many copies sold (500.000) Paine's influence on the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 is eminent.

During the War of Independence Paine volunteered in the Continental Army and started with the writing of his highly influencial sixteen American Crisis papers, which he published between 1776 and 1783. In 1777 he became Secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in Congress, but in 1779 he was forced to resign because he had disclosed secret information. In the following nine years he worked as a clerk at the Pennsylvania Assembly and published several of his writings.

Between March 1791 and February 1792 he published numerous editions of his Rights of Man, in which he defended the French Revolution against the attacks by Edmund Burke, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. But it was more then a defense of the French Revolution: an analysis of the roots of the discontent in Europe, which he laid in arbitrary government, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and war. The book wwas banned in England because it opposed to monarchy, but Paine was not arrested because he was already on his way to France, having been elected in the National Convention.

Though a true republicanist, he was imprisoned in 1793 under Robespierre, because he had voted against the execution of the dethroned king Louis XVI. During his imprisonment the publication of his Age of Reason started. Age of Reason was written in praise of the achievements of the Age of Enlightment, and it was from this book that he was acussed of being an atheist.

He wrote the famous book, " common sense". and is credited with his famous paraphrase of Adam smith's book " a wealth of nations for those poor, poor Haitians"

Common Sense

He emigrated to Philadelphia, PA in November 1774.

Thomas Paine once said "these are the times that try men's souls". This was a direct allusion to Rousseau's direct philosophy of self determination.

Thomas Paine said that in his pamphlet titled "Common Sense" (1776)

A famous quote from Thomas Paine reflects what his thoughts were on this subject. He said "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intollerable one."

Jefferson rendered no inconsiderable service to the cause of Constitutional Government, for it was partly through his insistence that the Bill of Rights, consisting of the first ten amendments, was adopted. He was also still serving as Minister to France until a year after the Constitution was adopted in 1787. Jefferson didn't want anything to do with the Constitution even though his best friend was writing it.

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A writer. He wrote four famous pamphlets - Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and the Age of Reason. The Age of Reason was about religion, and was anti-church based, so it made him a social outcast later on. Daring, because it does take courage to write things that some could have* considered treason. *and some did. He became a criminal in England for the Rights of Man, and again: The Age of Reason made everyone shun him. He died alone, and only a small group of people turned up at his funeral. He was buried on a farm (but I'm sorry, because I can't remember where it was). His body was later moved to England, but his grave there has not yet been found.

Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine were both highly persuasive patriots. Patrick Henry used his eloquence and dynamic speaking talents to call for independence in his famous 'Liberty or Death' speech. Thomas Paine used his persuasive writing skills to build the case of the fight for independence in his pamphlet 'Common Sense.' Both leaders, were able to put their point across by the use of stirring and inflammatory speech.

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His 5 main pamphlets were:

Common Sense

Thoughts on Government

The American Crisis

Rights of Man

Age of Reason

Thomas Paine went on to write Rights of Man and barely escaped death then he moved back to Pennsylvania where he died and 6 people attended his funeral.

Thomas Paine was trying to tell the colonist to go to war with Britianby writing "Comon sense" . He wanted the 13 colonies to have freedom from british rule and taxes.