Thomas Paine
Turner Baldwin
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In the letters that Thomas Paine wrote he stood up for the Americans and called the British government absurd. Paine begins by distinguishing between government and society. Society to Paine is everything constructive and good that people join together to accomplish. Government is an institution whose sole purpose is to protect us from our own voices. Paine says that government’s purpose is to protect life, liberty and property. Thomas believed that every man should have rights and that not just one King should have all the power, he believed that there should be a system. The reader knows that there is a system of checks and balances in America today, where as not one person as sole power. Thomas could have been foreshadowing this but never knew it. Thomas foreshadows the constitution because what he writes in the letters is identical to what the constitution says. He doesn’t want a system like Britain and is blaming Britain for the struggles with government in the colonies. By writing these letters, one could say that Paine started the American Revolution. Many people converted to independence after they read this letters. The ruler of America is God himself. Paine does not want a King to ruin the colonies like the King in Britain is ruining them. He even argues that God does not want people to have Kings and that God was mad that the Jews had one. Paine even calls the King of Great Britain, “the Royal Brute of Great Britain.” He says that the Monarch is America itself, meaning that everybody is the law and everybody has a say. He says that a government of their own is a right that they have earned. Paine say that people will be much happier if they are the ones who create the laws then having someone create them. Paine says that the colonies have little to gain staying attached to Britain. He says that if the colonies stay attached then the same problems will keep occurring, he states that it is important to seek
14.3
In the letters that Thomas Paine wrote he stood up for the Americans and called the British government absurd. Paine begins by distinguishing between government and society. Society to Paine is everything constructive and good that people join together to accomplish. Government is an institution whose sole purpose is to protect us from our own voices. Paine says that government’s purpose is to protect life, liberty and property. Thomas believed that every man should have rights and that not just one King should have all the power, he believed that there should be a system. The reader knows that there is a system of checks and balances in America today, where as not one person as sole power. Thomas could have been foreshadowing this but never knew it. Thomas foreshadows the constitution because what he writes in the letters is identical to what the constitution says. He doesn’t want a system like Britain and is blaming Britain for the struggles with government in the colonies. By writing these letters, one could say that Paine started the American Revolution. Many people converted to independence after they read this letters. The ruler of America is God himself. Paine does not want a King to ruin the colonies like the King in Britain is ruining them. He even argues that God does not want people to have Kings and that God was mad that the Jews had one. Paine even calls the King of Great Britain, “the Royal Brute of Great Britain.” He says that the Monarch is America itself, meaning that everybody is the law and everybody has a say. He says that a government of their own is a right that they have earned. Paine say that people will be much happier if they are the ones who create the laws then having someone create them. Paine says that the colonies have little to gain staying attached to Britain. He says that if the colonies stay attached then the same problems will keep occurring, he states that it is important to seek