Common Sense

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question that comes after this is how much power should government have? Paine argued that the English government had to much power and mainly that the power was not spread out equally like the people thought it was. The less a government has to govern the better.

The constitution of England was a great idea in the "dark and slavish times in which it was erected" (5). But Paine believed that to think it was perfect and without fault was a little overboard. The problem with the English constitution was that it was too complex within itself that it would be hard to find the underlying problem or problems. Some people may think it is in one part while others believe the fault lies in the other part. To believe that the three different powers represented in the English constitution were able to check one another is crazy. One illustration Paine used is that for the commons to be able to check the king would mean two things. One, that the king could not be trusted. Two that ...

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were able to worship in person face to face. As if God was not good enough and did not take care of them the Jews believed they needed a king. Not having a king was the one thing that set them apart from the rest of the world and now the Jews wanted to place a king in essence to rule over them. Paine refers to this as a sin of the Jews which had tremendous consequences. To have a king ruling over them was saying to God that they wanted someone else which in every case is idolatry, to place something or someone before the Lord Almighty. This is not even the worst of it. The person to take the king's place was not anointed or voted on but given the position for just being born unto ...

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