Question

How did Paine use concepts of equality, reason, and nature to criticize the legitimacy of monarchial government and british control of the colonies?

Answer 1

How can an island rule a continent? If all men are created equal, and the only thing that seperates men are different god given abilities, why should the ruler of men be chosen by something as arbitrary as birth? Nature shows that monarchies are evil, evidence was cited from history and from the Bible.

Answer 2

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