How Did Thomas Paine Make Common Sense A Revolutionary

Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776. It was advocating independence from Great Britain to the people of the thirteen colonies. “It captured the imagination of the colonists as had no previous pamphlet” (Paine, page 9). The pamphlet was written clearly and persuasively in the fact of getting the 13 colonies to rebel against King George III and Britain because colonists thought that they should not be ruled by a king across the sea and have all these taxes and rules placed on them. They wanted their own independence. Their own freedom. Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage the common people of the 13 colonies to fight for their own government and their own freedom. At first, people did not think it was a smart idea to go against Britain and betray their mother country. As more and more laws and taxes were placed on the people’s wills and goods, colonists started to become more and more angry and this is when Paine jumped right into the forefront with a pamphlet called “Common
Paine was angry with the first one that his publisher put out for the Colonists to read so he made a second and released it on February 14, 1776 and the newer one was a third larger than the first one. Interesting thing about Paine was that his last name was spelled “P-a-i-n” but added an “e” at the end when he thought he was no longer an Englishmen. “He was a new man, a successful American; he was Thomas Paine” (Paine, page 28). Paine also played a huge role in the politics of the war period, in Pennsylvania helping to shape the new state constitution and in the nation, itself carrying out the important foreign assignments. “The ease with which political arguments could, in fact, use scientific and technical principles is illustrated beautifully in Common Sense with its discussions of weights and forces” (Paine, page