Politics in a sense symbolizes rationality and written rules, whereas violence seems so analogical and meaningless, harmful to human life and rights. ... He notes that the compromise between the states finally found itself in the heart of a bloody civil war. ... One of them is the ideology of self belonging to a specific nation, in which sense a fellow-feeling to other nation people and in which you get an awareness of sharing a common culture and identity. ... So, as Weaver also notes, the master race(!) ... As Apter notes, "Martyrs of the Hamas of the party of God regard the Israelis the...

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Thomas Paine, in his pamphlet titled Common Sense, notes that "not one third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent"; therefore, how could Britain impose taxes on American colonists when the majority of them aren't from their country. ...

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To Locke the state of nature was "men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them- (Chapter 19, Two Treatises). ... One can even sense that Locke is answering Hobbes, i.e. ... And the objective eye would look past the Fourth of July brouhaha and note that indeed very little did actually change from 1775 to 1782, other than power was centralized in the continental United States. ...

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It is important to note that at this time the idea of Independence from Britain was not a common one and there were strong feelings in America between British Loyalists and the Colonial revolutionists. ... However in January of 1776, Thomas Payne wrote a pamphlet (Common Sense) that strongly urged the colonial cause. ...

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