World history/WHME101/Political revolutions/American revolution contd

Reading

Oil painting of Thomas Paine by Laurent Dabos

Read the below primary source material. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What does Paine see as unjust about British rule in North America?

• What changes does he propose?

Thomas Paine, 'Of Monarch and Hereditary Succession, Section II, Common Sense, Philadelphia: W. & T. Bradford, 1776.

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