Thomas Paine Common Sense is about American Independence. Thomas Paine discusses government and society. The government is suppose to protect us but in some ways the government can be cruel at times. Society is the opposite in which everything is nice. He goes into how if people were separated how will they form their government. The people would have to come together, make laws, and become a society. They would have to find a place for shelter, food resources, and elect people to lead them. Paine then elaborates on how the British government is complicated and how he feels their government has too much authority. He discusses kingship among the Jews and expresses how he felt God was disappointed in the Jews. I think Paine really didn’t like
