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What ideas came from Thomas Paine's common sense?

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The principles of self-government and hegemony from Great Britain

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Paine put forward in Common Sense a line of reasoning that, well, made sense to the common people and to the educated. Why should an island across the sea govern a massive continent? What right had Britain to levy huge taxes on America?

It sowed the seeds of informed dissent among many Americans and was a big part in the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War.

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