“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...

especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Less than two years later, he wrote “Common Sense ...