Question

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pushed for a more radical solution than theFirst Continental Congress did in resolving issues of British rule. What was Paine’s solution

Answer 1

Unlike what was proposed by the Continental Congress, which originally advocated a reconciliation with Great Britain with a greater recognition of civil, political and economic rights for the colonists, Thomas Paine believed that the American colonies did not obtain any benefit for belonging to the British Empire, if not the opposite, lost economic capacity and individual freedoms. For this reason, in his Common Sense essay published in 1776, Paine defended the idea of the emancipation of the Thirteen Colonies and the creation of a new independent nation.