1. Common Sense
They responded to Common Sense by saying "the setting up and putting down kings and governments, is God's peculiar prerogative; for causes best known to himself that we may live a peaceable and quiet life, in all goodliness and honesty; under the government which God is pleased to set over us (Paine 126)." Paine responded with "The principles of Quakerism have a direct tendency to make a man the quite and inoffensive subject of any, and every government which is set over him. ... He showed that eventually they would have to come up with some sort of a government. The government proposed...
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