Daniel Leonard's And Thomas Paine Analysis

Daniel Leonard’s and Thomas Paine’s documents were both different in some ways. Each act talks about different forms of rights within the government. Common Sense was written on January 9th, 1775 by Thomas Paine. This pamphlet was written during the American Revolution and the pamphlet was not wanting to be associated with the British because they tended to do things unfairly, so they wanted to become independent from Britain. For example, they did not treat everyone equally the main difference was between the rich and the poor. As for Daniel Leonard he wrote letters in the Massachusetts Gazette arguing for loyalty and to warn people about the dangers of rebellion.
The Common Sense article is one of the most important Pamphlet written during …show more content…
Paine asserts that mankind was originally in a state of equality, and, therefore, present inequalities must have been brought about by some circumstance. These things were very likely to happen during this time because Thomas Paine was willing to do anything or have anything happen to have his pamphlet passed. During this act one thing that Paine would say was “Government as a necessary evil….Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one… ( Common Sense) ”. This is true because the government can be evil and will do anything to protect their nation without thinking twice about the people. One could tell that Paine was not fond of the government because he felt as if they were not doing anything to do things better in some way the government was making things worse. The age of hereditary monarchy and aristocracy was over. People were citizens and not subjects, and were born with equal natural rights; that the people created, written constitutions that defined and limited their governments; that these written …show more content…
For example, like the things with Great Britain. For Paine’s article he made a big stance because he wanted America to be independent and not to depend on Britain for everything and wanted everyone to be treated as equal. Similarity, both of these documents say that during the time they were written it was a lot going on in the United States that really could not be changed, it had to take someone with strong authority and power to make the needed changes for the United States. As for the authors mostly everything was answered it just could have been more details of what was going on at the time of passing these acts as well as what difficulties that they ran