Thomas Paine

            During the 1700s Thomas Paine was a political philosopher and writer he encouraged people to fight for American independence from Britian . Paine talked about american revolutionary ideas with his 1776 writing Common Sense. Benjamin Franklin then residing in England at the time urged Thomas pain to resettle in America and make his living as a writer he realized he had nothing to lose so he set sail to America. Two years later in January 1976 Thomas pain a pamphleteer published a pamphlet entitled Common sense to encourage Americans and to help push Americans patriots towards independence. He wrote excitedly "we have it in our power to start the world over again." His pamphlet electrified the populace with its dynamic, forceful language. In the same pamphlet he also wrote to communicate a sense of urgency about moving towards independence and denounced the British monarchy writing: "the folly of hereditary rights in kings, is that nature disapproves its by giving mankind an ass for a lion." His pamphlet Common sense also attacked congressional moderates for not being bold enough to break with the past.