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Thank you And here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by thomas paine the original t pain You might

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not buy you a drink but he will buy you

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some rousing political theories about the extra drama idea form

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And now for a question one effect of the sentiments

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expressed in the excerpt Wass what And here you're potentially

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pain bring you pain Okay When thomas paine sat down

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to write common sense he was looking to unite the

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colonists against a common enemy The british He got the

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job done by tapping into the growing resentment the columnist

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felt toward the british strong centralized government Did you catch

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that last part Because it's important to many people in

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early america including pain the idea of a strong federal

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government was monstrous because it reminded them of monarchy be

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was obviously not paying attention to what we just said

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since it's saying the exact opposite So sorry b just

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wait until opposite day rolls around again And then that

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will be your time to shine Let's check out option

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c This one's got it all wrong The legislative branch

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is supposed to give power to the people and to

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the states so taking its power away would also do

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the opposite of what pain wanted And nobody wanted to

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contradict that guy They didn't call him t pain for

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nothing and then we have choice d which sounds good

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At least you might think that a country founded on

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the idea that every person has rights would set up

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a system where every person's vote counted But think again

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Instead a system was set up where only landowning white

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men could vote yea for freedom By this point it's

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pretty clear that the correct answer is Americans had just

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revolted against a mega strong central government so they were

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determined to avoid that in setting up their own country

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So they wrote the articles of confederation which gave a

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lot of power to individual states After the articles flop

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america eventually found more of a middle ground between state

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and federal power with constitution but then it would split

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apart again during the civil war Maybe common sense should 00:02:02.85 --> [endTime] have been required reading for early americans

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