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After assisting the American Revolution and creating the separation from Britain, Paine made sure that he informed the American peoples, and he did that publishing the book of common sense. It brought knowledge and well needed leadership to a nation.
Paine felt his work was done in America and came back to England were he stumbled across disgust from a fellow Englishmen, Edmond Burke. This is where Paine defended the French revolution and published the rights of man. After spending time in France he once again moved back to the country that he once help liberate, the United States of America.
Importance
At a time when France was in a development phase, and where many things were uncertain, and with a nation on the verge of war, many things could have failed and crashed but with the book rights of man a nation somehow joined together. The book really informed the average citizen on his/her boundaries on life in general. He made people realize that they had worth, and that everyone had the same amount of rights as each other. Thomas Paine created the pamphlet common sense it made North Americans realized that they deserve their own land, and that Britain is over seas and should stay overseas. Paine helped realize that America wasnt a new Britain but a collage of all Europe, for as most of Europe had influenced this new land. The rights of man gave people independence but most importantly it gave them knowledge and it opened their minds to a new element of equality that people were not used to. Now today many countries practise equal rights, and we can thank Thomas Paine for that great concept!