“for God’s sake, let us come to a final separation” - COMMON SENSE January 17, 1776

"Common Sense" remains the best selling American work of all time.

America Did Not Have An Easy BIRTH!!

If not for the role the Christian Churches played in advocating for the freedom of the colonists from the Imperial King of England, our history would be entirely different.

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If the colony continue increasing, it will become necessary to augment the number of the representatives, and that the interest of every part of the colony may be attended to, it will be found best to divide the whole into convenient parts, each part sending its proper number: and that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors, prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often:

because as the elected might by that means return and mix again with the general body of the electors in a few months, their fidelity to the public will be secured by the prudent reflection of not making a rod for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this (not on the unmeaning name of king) depends the strength of government, and the happiness of the governed.

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Even then, Thomas Paine wrote of the necessary need for the elected to only serve briefly!! The brilliance and genius of our founding fathers is an obvious fact!!

The "COMMON SENSE" of Thomas Paine