An Analysis Of Common Sense By Thomas Paine

With the recent election and the controversial result, politics has become centralized in today’s world and it is becoming focused on more by the American citizens. However, government and politics is not just now reaching the spectrum of attention. Problems with the government and its policies originated before this country now made up of fifty states was barely even unified with the thirteen original colonies. Problems with politics can even relate back to 380 BCE when Plato wrote The Republic. In American and global history, there have been numerous instances of problems with the government and politics. For example, there is the American Revolution, the idea of slavery in America, sanitation problems in America, and global imperialism.

Many of these novels are well known in society and are deemed as literature masterpieces in the political spectrum. During early America’s political times, one of the merging righters was Thomas Paine. One of the original forms of political literature is titled Common Sense by Thomas Paine and was written in 1776. The main argument of this novel by Paine is advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Paine marshaled arguments to encourage the American people to fight for independence from the monarch. At a time of political turmoil, strife was present among the Americans residing in the Thirteen Colonies and British rule. The British were implementing inequitable acts, such as the Tea Act and the Intolerable Act that angered colonists and made them realize a change was necessary. One of the main quotes from his pamphlet that was used to inspire Americans during a time of strife read, “Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one