Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine believed that God will not allow the Americans to die because they have tried to avoid war in all possible ways. He is also believed that King George III was a murderer and God will not allow murderers to continue ruling the Americans.

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Thomas Paine was only an outlet for what the common people were saying all over the colonies. Everyone was starting to realize how unfair English laws were and most of the settlers were in the Americas to escape from British opression. However Common Sense did tell colonists that opression could be ended. In a sense it "rallied the troops" and encouraged people to "Damn the Man"

In his book, "Common Sense," Thomas Paine's main argument is that the Colonists should be able to govern themselves. For example, few people leave a populated area to isolation where any problem can be solved within themselves. As society increases, laws and regulations are needed. When the population grows where it is impossible for all to meet in one place, then elections must take place and what, as Thomas Paine calls it, best balance for a government. Paine feels It was absurd for an island to rule a continent and that America was not a "British nation"; it was composed of influences and peoples from all of Europe. He also stated that if Britain was a mother country, that her brutality on her children would be considered horrendous. Paine concludes that the colonies are for Britain's interest and not care about the interest of the colonists.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain.

Thomas Paine was against the King of England, George III. Paine did not agree with his policy of taxation of the colonies without their proper representation in the British Parliament.

Yes. Because if the citizens made the laws, they would not want to break those laws. If the Kings and Queens made them and the people didn't like the rules, they would surely break them.

• Thomas Paine is American

He wrote Common Sense, a document to persuade more people to take the side of independance from Great Britan

To argue that Americans had a duty to revolt against Britain.

A strong written constitution is important in the United States because Americans like things cut and dry. They like things precise. They want to know just who is responsible. The rules for running the government are laid out.

Likewise American Accounting Rules are precise and laid out. Everything is in order. It is obvious that the big shots are stealing the companies blind.

England, on the other hand, does not have a written constitution. It just muddles along. Europe has more people than the United States but can not get its act together. The European Union should be far more powerful than the United States but has nowhere near the organization.

Likewise Europe uses Accounting Principles. No one is quite sure what is going on.

no, but he helped in on arguing for one he provided the colonists with a completely new outlook toward independence from Britain. Paine pushed for complete independence which then lead to the Revolution. He was a British born writer who had recently moved to the colonies to pursue writing. He published many newspaper articles and wrote books, such as, Rights of Man, written in 1791, it emphasized that rights could not be implied by a charter, because the charter meant that these rights could be revoked and reduce priveleges.

No, because Paine is saying that the British king is like our laws here in America.

No, Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that made a case for the independence of the colonies.

Thomas Paine is most noted for writing "Common Sense" during the Revolutionary war. The 47 page pamphlet stated that citizens, not Kings and Queens, should make laws.

The American Crisis is a collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. The pamphlets were contemporaneous with early parts of the American Revolution, during a time when colonists needed inspiring works. They were written in a language that the common man could understand, and represented Paine's liberal philosophy.

To show the fight for independence as a spiritual struggle.

He thought that the people should make the laws because they are the ones that know which laws would help them and the community.

The people needed to grow against their ruler, and "Common Sense" explained the problems and how to rise against Britain. Everyone could understand, and they wanted to use that information ot rise agaist Britain and gain their independence.

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1. His name is Thomas Paine.

2. He was born on February 9, 1737 in Great Britain.

3. He was a radical author.

4. He was mainly interested in religion, politics and ethics.

5. He died on June 8, 1809 in New York, NY.