Common_Sense

Common Sense Common Sense Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” was one of the most influential political pamphlets during the American Revolution. This pamphlet served as reinforcement for the American colonies will for independence from England. Within the confines of fifty pages Paine tried to illustrate to the America people the evils of the monarchy and the contradictions of the English government, and show that the king is not the legitimate ruler. In his quest to discourage the America people from breaking away from one tyrannical monarch and installing a new one in America Paine examines the English Constitution. Paine believes that if we are to examine the English constitution we will find that “two ancient tyrannies” lie under the exist republic. First and foremost of the two tyrannies is the existence of the king. Second are the remains of aristocratically tyranny (6). According to Pain the fact that these two position are hereditary this already takes away power from the people and isn’t constitutional. England’s republic itself Paine states is a contradiction, because of the checks and balances between the governing powers. “To say that the commons is a check upon the king, presupposes two things. First commomn, sense, king, paine, monarchy, people, two, one, states, kings, government, first, english, england, world, within, several, say, power, out, man, goes, fact, constitution, commons, being, american, america, against, yet, wars, useless, tyrannies, times, time, through, thoroughly