In truth, the King had the power to reject or take back any new laws or limits that the Commons would propose against him, rendering the entire constitution useless by all definitions.Īfter all, if the King could deem himself wiser than those who would advise him, the English Constitution (in Paine’s eyes) was nothing more but a “mere absurdity!”. These 3 powers were meant to provide outside checks and balances to the influence of the King in the monarchy, but instead serve as nothing more than a “farcical” attempt at providing a means in which to limit the absolute power of the King. And a 3rd power, taking form in the Commons. He goes on to argue that in the monarchy of England, lie 2 outdated forms of rule, in which monarchial (in the person of the King) and aristocratical tyranny (in the persons of the peers) naturally lead to abuse of power and influence.
Thomas Paine remarks that herein lies the true nature and equality of men, and “not on the unmeaning name of King”. In these beginnings of a government, every man in this new society would naturally have a say in the going’s on of his community. Paine also eventually argues that a society is formed to be able to aid one another in tasks and goals that no one man could naturally accomplish on one’s own, and a government is formed shortly after to ensure justice and order in this new society of men. Paine’s argument for the inferiority of the English form of government is a sound one. Paine’s stance on monarchies, is not one that is a king to a religious or political fervor, but of an opinion that is thought-out and methodical.
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine not only touches upon the topic of America’s unavoidable freedom from England, but also delivers a scathing criticism on the monarchy of England, and its continued existence in a world where such forms of government were quickly being realized as inferior and medieval.
Do you think many of us have a point? Was Thomas Paine’s document the main force behind growing public opinion? This document is considered by many including me, to be one of the main driving forces behind the growing public opinion in support of America’s liberation from the oppressive tyranny of the monarchial Mother of England. Common Sense, was a political pamphlet that was written in the 1770s, to be specific 1776. Thomas Paine will forever live on in many of our eyes based on the impact he had in the world.
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