Paine's Common Sense was a pamphlet that spoke to all types of people and groups that read it. He spoke to the merchants, the loyalist, the religious separatist, and all other who may have seemed skeptical of supporting a war against Britain. As he wrote, he knew his job was to make his ideas and major points simple. He also need to phrase them in ways that m

He asks his reader to choose between believing the Bible or renouncing it. Again, he is basically saying. How can you go against this argument? Isn't it obvious what's right? In his following sections on the thoughts and future of America, he blatantly states that he "offers nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense." To those who have thoughts of entrusting themselves once again in Britain even after all that happened, he says that they must examine the "connexion and dependance, on the principles of nature and common sense, to see what" may occur if the stay dependents as opposed to if they break away. He uses again the words, common sense. He is not only saying that it is natural for Britain to undermine the colonies but that it is common sense for the colonist to understand that and make a change.

Paine's method is to convince his readers that his thoughts are just as easily the type of thoughts they could have concluded themselves. His readers were overall so roused to act b

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