Paine best remembered for writing Common Senseīorn to a Quaker father and Anglican mother in Thetford, England, Paine worked variously as a corset-maker, excise-tax collector, seaman, and shopkeeper before departing for the colonies. Paine’s “hints” for organizing an independent government include reverence for a written charter that would emphasize individual liberty, including the free exercise of religion. Alongside his justification for the colonists’ separation from England, Paine suggests that the rule of law should replace the rule of king. Thomas Paine (1737–1809), pamphleteer and revolutionary, is best remembered as the author of Common Sense (1776), an enormously popular and highly influential 47-page pamphlet that resonated across the land with its critique of King George III and hereditary succession and its call for American independence. (Painting by Laurent Dabos via National Portrait Gallery, public domain)
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