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Paine made a plea to potential patriots by confidently stating that “The nearer any government approaches a republic the less business there is for a king.”<ref>Paine, 20.</ref>Once Paine instilled this thought in the reader; he continued to raise the fear that without a republic “slavery ensues.”<ref>Paine, 21.</ref>This was an especially powerful notion as Parliament was levying taxes at a rapid pace and without some form of legislative representation, farmers, trappers, and shippers were certain to have their livelihoods threatened, if not completely eradicated. It can be argued that the combination of England’s taxation policies and the release of ''Common Sense'', worked in concert to create one cohesive nation rather than thirteen loosely joined colonies.
==== Conclusion ====In the introduction to ''Common Sense'', Paine declares “a long habit of not thinking a thing ''wrong'', gives it a superficial appearance of being ''right''.”<ref>Paine,3.</ref>This simple sentence opened the minds of common citizens to the possibilities of a less oppressive future in an egalitarian society for white men. Thomas Paine anonymously unleashed the buried patriot spirit of average American colonists. While Parliament was implementing strict tax laws and occupying the American continent, Thomas Paine was transforming the lives and attitudes of its inhabitants. England created an atmosphere of future subservience among the colonists, while Thomas Paine reached out to these same people and through his inspired words, fomented a revolution.
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