Paine is known to be a radical writer and he likes to use it a lot in his writings to persuade his readers. He did exactly that in Common Sense. He wrote in a language that the readers could understand. He would denounce King George the third by calling him “the Pharaoh of England” and the “the royal brute of Great Britain”2.Paine also went after England’s monarchy and argued for a republic government. Paine felt that England should not have ruled over the colonies because of how far apart the two countries are. He used this to argue that America didn’t need England’s help anymore. He also used the taxation policy’s and the intolerable acts to say that England was no longer loyal to us because they are attacking us with these corrupt policies and that a government a thousand miles away shouldn’t rule over a country. Paine also said that the problems in the past will only continue. People in the Colonies would say that Great Britain has protected the colonies and Paine reasons that Britain was only protecting us is to secure Britain’s economic well-being.3. In the first three months of it’s publication ‘Common Sense’ had sold over 120,000 copies in the rebellious colonies. By the end of the revolution 500,000 copies were sold. The American people absolutely loved it. Many people were inspired by Paine’s work and it fueled them with angry. Newspaper editors and journalists who were so fed up with the king and monarchy supported the idea of separating from England. Newspaper articles across the colonies would publish how people felt and what they thought. The New-York Journal published this “In your famous pamphlet entitled Common Sense, by which I am convinced of the necessity of Independence, to which before I was averse, you have given liberty to every individual to contribute materials for that great building, the grand charter of American Liberty. I shall therefore venture to lay before you and the public a few hints as …show more content…
It was only months after Common Sense was published that Congress approved the Declaration of Independence(5). ”We have been driven to the necessity of breaking off all connections with her” a quote from Common Sense is almost identical to the second to last paragraph-“The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too; we will climb it, apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.”6. Another quote from Common Sense-"The peaceful methods which we have ineffectually used for redress” the same idea is used in the third to last paragraph in the Declaration of