Common Sense And The Pursuit Of Independence

"All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among there are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" (Declaration of Independence). During the late 18th century the 13 colonies in America start to disagree with their king and his government. The Seven Years’ war left Britain with debt, which led the mother country to make the colonies share the cost of empire by the creation of new laws. The creation of the Sugar Act and the Proclamation Line are examples of laws that affects the economic interests and the political power of the 13 colonies, which ended up in fights. These problems has led the colonies to fight for what they belief was their rights and they declared themselves
He made a persuasive argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was urgent (Foner). In my opinion, the most important aspect about the Common Sense is that it was like a translation of the complicated philosophical and scientific principles of the Enlightenment into simple words that the masses could understand. Therefore, he has played a greater role in moving the American people from a spirit of rebellion to one of revolution. Now that they had decided to create a new country, they need to have some philosophies and ideas as inspiration to form its structure. I believe that the creation of the United States is based on the philosophy of John Locke with his concept of the Natural
We can highlight that the United States practices wants a federal constitutional republic form of government while the British uses constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system; if we look at the constitution, it says that, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…” (U.S. Constitution. Art. IV, Sec. 4.). Therefore, the colonies don’t want a king as the head of the state because the monarchy was one of the main things that the former colonists had rebelled against, any form of monarchy and most forms of concentrated power were avoided. Moreover, the United States describes itself as a federation of states, each with their own government and a Federal government to rule them all, which makes sense due to the large and spread-out country; on the other hand England is small, densely populated and much centralized. Furthermore, we can say that the most fundamental difference between the political systems of the United States and the British is the constitution; the United States has a written constitution which is very difficult to change while Britain does not have one but instead its constitutional provisions are scattered over various Acts of Parliament, any of which can be changed by a simple majority in the