Thomas Paine and John Locke were two influential figures, who contributed in the American revolutionary spirit. While Common Sense deliberate enthusiastically the most common but unstated truth: America should be free from control of Britain, John lock claimed the property, the social contract theory with calmness. Revolutionary ideology was generated in the colonies thanks to the Common Sense Pamphlet’s indisputable contents and the wide circulation. On one hand, it is Thomas Paine who first point out that America belongs to itself, exemplified by histrionical, economic, religious, politic, and even geographic evidence. Thomas Paine wrote in this book “Our land force is already sufficient, and as to naval affairs, we cannot be insensible, that Britain would never suffer an American man of war to be built while the continent remained in …show more content…
He wrote in this book that, “This fatherly authority there, or right of fatherhood, in our A.’s sense, is a divine unalterable right of sovereignty, whereby a father or a prince hath an absolute, arbitrary, unlimited, and unlimitable power over the lives, liberties, and estates of his children and subjects; so that he may take or alienate their estates, sell, castrate, or use their persons as he pleases, they being all his slaves, and he lord or proprietor of every thing, and his unbounded will their law (Locke, 12).” He told people that there are rights own by every mankind, which can not be taken away by others, and he stated that government is needed for subduing chaos in the state of nature, where people protect and gather resources of their free will. To sum up, civil society is built upon need for protection of property, which includes people, and the rights and estates they own. Another important augment, the social contract, stated