Thomas Paine And The Bill Of Rights

Common Sense is a pamphlet in a series of pamphlets called, The American Crisis, which was written by the enlightenment philosopher and author, Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine was a significant character in the American fight for independence by using his radicalized writings to inspire the colonists to conclude it was time to break away from British rule. Common Sense was critically successful due to it selling 500,000 copies a few months after it’s publication in 1776. Common Sense is a pamphlet that has many key ideas that show the many strengths of Paine’s argument while also having some weaknesses that could damage the credibility of his argument.

He thought that people should know about the way Britain is treating the colonies and that people must fight against the unfair ways of British Parliament. Thomas Paine saw that colonies had every right to revolt against the government. He knew the taxes being imposed on colonies were wrong and that the fact colonies did not get the right of representation in the Parliament was unfair. There was no need for the colonies to stay dependent on England. So on January 10, 1776 Paine formulated his ideas on american independence in his pamphlet known as “Common Sense”

Thomas Paine was an English-American, writer and revolutionist; he was born on January 29, 1736. From 1772 to 1773, Paine joined excise officers asking Parliament for better pay and working conditions, publishing, in summer of 1772, The Case of the Officers of Excise, a twenty-one-page article, and his first political work. On June 4 1774, mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Commissioner of the Excise George Lewis Scott introduced him to Benjamin Franklin, who suggested him to move to British colonial America. In October, Thomas Paine departed from Great Britain to the American colonies. He arrived in Philadelphia on November 30 1774. He became a citizen of Pennsylvania by taking the oath of allegiance at a very early period. In January 1775, he became the editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine. In April 1775, during the battles of Lexington and Concord, Paine viewed, that the Colonies had all the right to revolt against a government that imposed taxes on them but which did not give them the right of representation in the Parliament at Westminster. But he went even further: for him there was no reason for the Colonies to stay dependent on England. On January 10 1776 he namelessly published the best-selling American title of that period named Common Sense, signed as “Written by an Englishman”. Common Sense was another article that directly demanded independence from British government, it was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution.

Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense”, which promoted the idea of war. He explained why America needed liberty and brought up other important issues. “Common Sense” was a powerful pamphlet, it changed the minds of many people. Thomas Paine also wrote “The American Crisis”, which also promoted the idea of being independent. The articles gave colonist a fighting spirit. The articles moved them.

Thomas Paine’s political pamphlet entitled Common Sense was a very inspirational piece of writing. Common Sense stirred the American colonists who were pursuing independence. It was also a persuasive piece of writing for the American colonists who were unsure if they wanted to split their ways with Great Britain, or not. Throughout the political pamphlet Paine argues that the colonist were not dependent on Great Britain. He makes powerful points regarding how the American colonies would interact if they were still together with Great Britain. Paine also uses the location and size of Great Britain and the American colonies to aid in strengthening the case for independence. Many political influences such as Thomas Jefferson were swayed by the political pamphlet Common Sense.

With the initially anonymous release of the pamphlet, Common Sense, Thomas Paine proposed to challenge Great Britain, as well as advocate for independence from the British government's sovereignty over what was then the thirteen American colonies. With the objective of coercing the American people to fight against Great Britain in mind, Thomas Paine employed various rhetorical strategies. These rhetorical strategies included: inductive and deductive reasoning through logic; but some of Paine's most persuasive arguments come from emotionally charged appeals to action and various forms of logical fallacies, which Paine used in an effort to coerce and inspire his audience, the American public, to unite with each other in the much anticipated battle

Thomas Paine was a philosopher of religion, and science, hie wrote the common sense, he wrote a few essays depends on the occurred happen in his life. Paine life was so difficult with his wife 's death, children, and losing his job. He lived in the Great Britain since 1737 was born in Thetford, England. Thomas Paine became extremely important. In 1776, he published the first essay about the Common Sense. The reason why Paine wrote the common sense is to inspire the army and to make his vision become true of being an independent country. Paine was successful as a solid, but he pamphlet become so popular among the solid and inspires them to fight against the British. Paine was the real catalyst for freedom from British colonial rule.

In the 1700s, Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense to gain support for American independence and lead people to join the American Revolution.

Thomas Paine was responsible for some of the most influential works of the revolution. Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense was a very crucial part to America and its movement of independence from Britain. Paine was effective with his writings by being very plain. He wanted both farmers and officials to understand what he was talking about and be able to comprehend his ideas. Paine wanted to put his ideas out to the people of the American colonies so that they could understand it just by reading and not have to analyze and decipher what he was really trying to get across. He wanted to let the colonist know that there was no more room for talking about a split from English rule but it was time for the colonies to unite and take up arms against their British oppressors.

Thomas Paine wrote “common sense” to advocate for the colonists to gain their independence from Great Britain. Paine used media in his advantage to win the heart of the people, in order to convince people and to gain supporters. He used pamphlets for it mobility and quick information instead of using the technical way of publishing and printing, which might take some time to spread rather than a pamphlet. Paine mainly talks about the government and its ideal and the inevitable of the colonist separating from Great Britain.

“…people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages… brought into cordial unison.” In Rights of Man, Thomas Paine characterizes America in the late eighteenth century. However, Paine’s characterization of America in 1791 is mostly different than what it is in today’s society. However, some of his claims are still true today.

Books have a way of linking themselves into the human brain, influencing people in life choices and situations. Books can be used in science, art, mathematics, and hundreds of other subjects. They are important because they have the ability to contain information that a single mind cannot withhold, and also the capability to bring people together, or draw them apart. If every existing book were to be burned, the political manifesto Rights of Man by Thomas Paine should be conserved because it influences liberal ideas, reminds people of their natural human rights, and expresses the acceptance of revolutions.

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” had a greater effect on revolutionary America than the Declaration of independence because it aroused national feelings and contributed to the Declaration of Independence. Common Sense was a pamphlet published anonymously by Thomas Paine and The Declaration of Independence was an official document detailing a policy of the new American government. Without “Common Sense” the Declaration of Independence would not be as we know it today.

He wrote the influential pamphlet Common Sense, which was an assault on monarchial rule and the American colonies independence from Britain. “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 when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. ”(Paine) Paine also felt that society as a whole, was produced by our wants, and governed by our wickedness. Paine was once imprisoned in Britain for sedition.

In Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man, he explicitly states his support for the rising American government by giving utopian properties to the country. Paine was a renowned writer who supported the estrangement of the colonies to England. Moreover, Paine’s book Common Sense expedited revolutionaries to forgo separation from England and write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. In the excerpt, his perception of the United States as an ideal democratic society could not be further from the truth. Through the years America has been plagued with terrorist a corrupt government, economic strife, and the prevalence of racism towards non-whites. Paine’s ideals of a society where a variety of different cultures can coexist and where violence is nonexistent have been completely dispelled.