Common Sense 250—The Call to Action

Common Sense Paper No. '76

In 1776, a political experiment began to unfold largely based on the writings of two men named Thomas.

Thomas No. 1

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense offered a powerful argument for American independence from British rule. Paine made a clear case that monarchy and hereditary succession are illegitimate, presenting them as contrary to reason and to the principl…