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How did paine use concepts of equality reason and nature to criticize the legitimacy of monarchical government?
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How did paine use concepts of equality reason and nature to criticize the legitimacy of monarchical government?

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Thomas Paine made it clear that it was irrational for a monarch to rule simply because those in his family had done so before him, since there was nothing inherent in a blood line that made someone a good or bad leader. 
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