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Paine, on your right. So he was born in England, surprisingly, but he adopted the American cause for independence. He actually worked as a corset maker, which is a piece of women's clothing, and surprisingly, a tax collector. And he moved to Philadelphia in 1774 and became a journalist. Now with the encouragement of Benjamin Rush, he published Common Sense. So let's dive into it and take a closer look at Common Sense. What it did was it fundamentally rejected monarchy. He said that it was dangerous, that the idea of a king ruling a people was a scary, scary notion. And he said, look, all men are born equal, so no family has the right to rule over everyone else. If we're all equal, no person is better than the next. And he said that the British were taking advantage of that. They were taxing the Americans unfairly. They were not treating them as equals. In addition, he said America was too large and too far away to be ruled by Britain. You need to remember that there were 3,000 miles separating Great Britain and the Americans.
