Paine purposed to realize for every individual, as much as possible, the God-given natural rights and liberty of mankind. Such a goal for any nation, Paine believed, is best and most easily accomplished through the agency of a constitution that by its sequence of adoption and substantive content.
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Paine used Common Sense to convince the American colonists that to be fully independent and free, the King and what he stood for had to be discarded. A republican form of government had to replace monarchy and nobility.
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Paine means to rouse the emotions; but unlike many a Romantic, he means to stir us to accept and act primarily upon rational principles and historic evidence. Paine does not represent simply a transition between politico-religious and politico-economic theory: he combines them.
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