Argumentative Essay On Common Sense By Thomas Paine

In “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine calls to question the true authority Great Britain should have over America. As an independent nation, America could have its own government and would be able to pass laws and create its own army and navy to protect itself without having to get permission from a tyrannical mother country. Great Britain has ruined its own nations relationship with most of Europe and therefore ruined the relations of America with most of Europe. Think of all the trade possibilities if America were no longer tethered to such a vindictive island. Useful alliances can only be made when America is no longer a colony of Great Britain. Some arguments about Great Britain’s taxation on the colonies being justified discuss how the mother