Common_Sense

Common Sense Common Sense. By Thomas Paine. Recently, I read a copy of Thomas Paine’s most recent patriotic work, entitled Common Sense. I was nothing less than astonished at how Paine so powerfully conveyed his patriotic message. Paine theorizes a split between England and the colonial states. At the same time as a split is theorized, it would form a union of the colonial states into one country, united into one body on our American principles, no longer under the rule of the British Parliament and its ridiculous taxes and misrepresentation. Paine delivers one of the most compelling arguments I have heard on why there should be a division between the English and the Americans. The British Parliament has long been a bane to the colonists in the New World, with the passage of all their "acts" to tax us simply because we are more productive. Paine makes his contempt for the current system of government quite clear early on. "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for even we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might government, power, paine, british, time, system, english, england, between, america, people, one, even, under, suffer, separation, parliament, own, kings, colonists, about, taxes, states, state, stand, split, set, rule, representation, paine’s, nation, men, country, because, world, without, whom, trust, true, through, though, thomas, take, survival, succession, society, should, sense, say, same, ridiculous