Common+Sense





Published in 1776, //Common Sense// challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. [|"Common Sense"pt2] [|Common Sense pt1] In January of 1776 a man by the name of Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet entitled __Common Sense__, in which he outlined the reasons that he felt it was time for the colonies to part company with Great Britain, and form their own independent nation. Thomas Paine believed that man shouldn't be control by any knights or kings, this is the message that he wanted common people to get out of __Common Sense__. Everyone in the colonies read this pamphlet and everyone was influenced. Paine wanted the colonies to see that it was indeed time to form a new united nation without British control.

[|Thomas Paine]



[|**Common Sense**] (1776) [|**The Crisis**] (1776-77) [|**The Rights of Man**] (1791-92) [|**Age of Reason**] (1794, 1795, 1807) [|Common Sense] [|Pamplet of Common Sense]

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[|The reading of Common Sense]