Thomas Paine-Common Sense and related writings. How do his ideas about the British Constitution compare with his ideas about nature?
Title: Thomas Paine-Common Sense and related writings. How do his ideas about the British Constitution compare with his ideas about nature?
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 498 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Thomas Paine-Common Sense and related writings. How do his ideas about the British Constitution compare with his ideas about nature?
Category: /History/North American History
Details: Words: 498 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nature's Reasoning
" The simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right."(76) Thomas Paine passionately argued for what is right and logical in maintaining a working and equal society. Realizing the evil and non-constructive affects of a monarchial government, Paine derived his beliefs and opinions from the simplicity of nature.
In mid-June of 1775 the Revolution had reached its bloodiest and pivotal part. The moral of the American militiamen was optimistic for they …showed first 75 words of 498 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 498 total…evil,"(74) and the only reason humans need government is," to supply the defect of moral virtue." Thus showing Paine's relation to the simplicity of nature.
Realizing the evil and non-constructive affects of a monarchial government, Paine derived his beliefs and opinions from the simplicity of nature. For hundreds of years Great Britain's constitution catered to the noble and high class. On the other hand, Paine served the ordinary American, something that no government had reasoned.
