Who was Thomas Paine?

Common Sense Of the men who made the American Revolution, none had a more remarkable career or suffering a peculiar fate, than that of Thomas Paine. Paine's wealthy and intellectual freinds of the gentry included that of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Even Paine's antagonist John Adams came from an upper-class famly long established on American soil.

Paine's orgins come from the "low-class" of the eighteenth-century England, and he did not arrive until the very eve of the Revolutionary War Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE exploded on the American scene like a bombshell. Within just three months of publication, it sold more than 120,000 copies. Paine, a radical English printer who lived in America only since 1774, called stridently and stirringly for independence.

More than that, Paine challenged many common American assumptions about government as well as, the colonies' relationship to England. Rejecting the notion that a balance of monarchy, aristocrocy, and democracy was necessary to preseve freedom, Paine advocated the establishment of a republic, a government by the people, with no king or nobility. Instead of ascknowledging the benefits of a connection with the mother country, Thomas Paine insisted that Britain had exploited the colonies unmercifully.In place of the frequently heard assertion that an independent America would be weak and divided, Paine substituted an unlimited confidence in America's strength when freed from English rule.

Paine's striking, brutal statements and assertments were cloaked in an eaqually striking prose. Paine scorned the polite, rational style of his classically educated predecessors, while adopting a more furious raging, and violent tone that was widely read throughout the American colonies.(S. Menzel).

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