Common Sense By Thomas Paine Analysis

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By 1700 the recognized citizens of the British American colonies had become accustomed to life under a foreign reign. Many had come to think of their British rulers as simply a lawmaker and much less of a present enforcer until the looming giant that was the British army became apparent. The colonists were hidden in the shadow of their monarchy; to escape the darkness someone must shed some light. The age of enlightenment began with a very small movement a voice of a neighbor or a whisper spreading around an illegal coffee shop that sparked from a small flame to a roaring fire. It grew just as Thomas Paine, author of “Common Sense”, once wrote, “The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind