Common Sense Reflection

Tomas Paine seamed like a man who thought he was smart and no one else around him was. One point he stressed was that we should not have a monarchy. He said it was a sin for the Jews to think about one and it is a sin for America to have one. (Paine). I do not understand why he would even talk about it because we are not a monarchy. Though, Washington was offered the position of kind, he turned it down. Maybe this is why Washington did turn it down because of Paine's writ ting. Toman talks about colonies being to big for one group of people to represent. He states that there should be more people to represent it. He also talked about how when the colony increases in the amount of people, then the amount of interest and problems grows (Paine). This is a good point. It is because it is true. When there is more people, there is a need for more people to represent them. Also, the more people the more problems there tends to be because there is a need for more food, jobs, houses, and other vital things to life. Tomas Paine also talks about the fighting with England. He says that he know is ts hard for use to get along with them because we want to be independent, but we also take some of the ideas from their Constitution and they are in ours (Paine). This is true. If we are going to piggy- back ideas from England, then we can not hate them that much if we are willing to follow their rules. He also confronts the problem of debt. It was confusing when he said that we need to be in debt. He did have a good point when he said that national debt connected us together (Paine). I believe there is no reason for debt. Tomas Paine also said that with debt, there comes a Navy (Paine). I come to reason that there would still be an army and navy, even if we were not in debt. Before America was in debt to France, we had the Contineal Army. This is a prime example of an army without a debt. Though the army did put us in debt. Tomas Paine also talked about what would happen if we made an alliance with Britain. He said talked about if they would protect us. He said that the British would probably put a navy in the ports to protect us. He also said that if they do this, common sense will tell us that they will trick us into slavery and then they would probably rule us over again (Paine). This is a very very good point. It is because if we allow the country that we were in such great battles against and a country that wants to rule us back into our lives with open arms for "protection" who not be smart. They would slowly take us over, but this time with our permission because we allowed them to come back into our country.

Paine, By Thomas. "Thomas Paine's Common Sense - Text Version." Archiving Early America: Primary Source Material from 18th Century America. Web. 15 Oct. 2010. .