Thomas Paine And The Bill Of Rights

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 claims in Common Sense that the people living in America do not need to tolerate the oppression from their British overlords. His main purpose for writing this pamphlet was to expose the injustice of the British towards the Americans and to persuade those who still believed that the British were either needed or were beneficial for the Americans in 1776. Paine values the idea that the Americans need to revolt against their evil ,oppressive, monarchical rulers in Britain and to establish pure democracy in the Thirteen Colonies. Paine writes from the perspective of an equal to his fellow American man, thus making him relatable from common folk to the wealthy merchants and upper classes. Paine shows the British tyranny over America as horrific and he wishes to expose British faults and impurities to inspire the colonists

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.

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 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.

In 1791, Thomas Paine drafted the Rights of Man, which supported the idea that citizens and monarchs should have similar goals in order to have a united society. The Rights of Man support the unalienable rights of man: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but it fails to capture the true issues that the nation faces. He paints an impractical utopia that is formed by the characterizations in his book. Therefore, the ideals held by Paine in the Rights of Man are inaccurate due to the realistic principles that are embraced by modern society.

When Thomas moved to America, he was upset because America was not yet considered an independent country which then lead him to write the book Common Sense. Paine did not agree with having the same rules and King in America as great Britian and neither did many people at that time, so he started writing books to help separate America from Great Britain and making America independent.

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.

As the 250th anniversary of becoming an independent country draws near, we, the American people, must look at the struggles our country had to overcome to understand how to unite it once again. With our wide range of backgrounds, it seems as though it is hard to become a unified country. But according to Thomas Paine, the author of Rights to Man, despite all the differences, the United States of America is unified in regards to every problem. However, Paine’s claim of a unified country with no issues to fight over is simply untrue, especially in the 21st century where anger and hatred makes it harder for people to listen to each other and unify under the same ideals.

The book Rights of Man, written by Thomas Paine, he explains how every human had their natural rights, and how a country could find peace if they composed a government based on the rights. In the particular section we must write about, he focuses on describing America, and how perfect it is. He says everyone is in agreement, there’s no riots, and etc., but does all this hold true today about America? It doesn’t. America today is nothing how Paine described it back in 1791, the wealthy are treated better than the poor, the diversity in America is overcome with the belief of supremacy of races and self-segregation, and protests and riots are constant due to many things political and economical..

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.

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.