As a reaction for the hostile King of England, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called “Common Sense”. In here, he wrote ideals for independence, the way colonists dreamed for living and union. Thomas Paine was an immigrant from Britain, who was a tax collector and artisan. He used a simple-forceful and direct language, which showed a radical course. He proposed mainly three things:

a.       Independence of Britain

b.      Republican State Government

c.       Union of the New States

In this document, Paine denounced the King and aristocrats of Britain as parasites and frauds. He wanted the common people to elect all representatives in the Government. He saw wrong that the just because you had a title and richness, you would take decisions for a nation. This people always tried to smother the common people. He argued that in a Republic, people would be reward of earned privileges instead of inheriting them. He saw the King as the main enemy and source of problems for the Colonists.  He said as well, that if they free from the English Empire, they could make business and trading with whoever they desired. These ideals with the influence of the Enlightenment thinkers’ ideals, built a movement for Independence in the America. All this ideals were the based for the Declaration of Independence.

He used a plain language that common people could read, his pamphlet was sold in America and Europe.