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Imagine yourself sitting down to read Common Sense in January 1776. How does Paine introduce his reasoning [the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way] to you

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Common Sense was a patriotic pamphlet written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolution, which blamed the entire economic and political suffering of the colonists on the British monarch George III. Common sense made a strong appeal to the American colonists to rebel against Great Britain, articulating their writing and reasoning in a way that ordinary people could understand, leaving aside the styles of the time, which used Latin phrases, moving to a Plainer and simpler language that could be understood by the entire population. In the pamphlet, Paine maintains that the people are equal to the nobility, and defends the revolution by claiming that the taxes established by Parliament were illegitimate since the settlers were not represented there.

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