Common Sense

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Common Sense
Presentation by Robert Martinez Primary Content
Source American Greats, edited by R. Wilson and
S. Marcus. Images as cited.
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• When the Founding Fathers signed the
  Declaration of Independence on
• July 4,1776, it was an accepted fact that most
  colonists favored full separation from England.

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• But only six months before, it was not so. There
  was still a sense that Parliament in London could
  resolve the disputes in a satisfactory way with
  the colonies.

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• On January 10, 1776, an English corset-maker,
  who had only been in the colonies about a year,
  published a pamphlet called Common Sense.

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• In clear and moving prose, Thomas Paine gathered
  up the random unspoken thoughts of the average
  colonial, and gave them the courage to accept the
  radical idea of self-rule.

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• Every thing that is right and reasonable pleads
  for separation. The blood of the slain, the
  weeping voice of nature cries, Tis Time To
  Part. Thomas Paine

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• For the first time, the notion of independence
  was on the lips of every yeoman in the colonies
  and a new idea of a separate nationality was in
  their heads.

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• Thomas Paine was the first man to string together
  these five words
• The United States of America.

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• Every chord of discontent in the colonies was
  plucked by Paine in Common Sense.

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• To the Tories who defended the monarchy, Paine
  mocked King George as a hardened,
  sullen-tempered Pharaoh a French bastard
  establishing himself King of England against the
  consent of the natives.

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• Might the relations between England and her
  American colonies somehow be repaired? Paine
  relied, Can ye give to prostitution its former
  innocence? Neither can ye reconcile Britain and
  America

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• As well can the lover forgive the ravishers
  rapists of his mistress as the continent
  forgive the murders of Britain.

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• Common Sense is a brilliant piece of propaganda
  from the American Revolution.

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• It insulted the enemy, explained the reasons
  for revolt, and implored the masses to act.

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