Common Sense - 1 - No Kings

Part OneQuoteA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. Notes🔥 Government is a necessary evil in the best case scenario. In the worst case, it's an intolerable evil, made worse by the fact that "we (the people) furnish the means by which we suffer." 🔥 Security is the true (and only?) end of government. Anything else only adds complications and potential for abuse. When it comes to designing a government, the simpler the better. 🔥 Paine lays out a scenario where a small group of people come together to form a society. It's too hard to live on your own and much easier when work is distributed among more people. As it grows, a government needs to be established to lay out basic laws, because men are subject to vice and some outside force needs to reign them in. Frequent elections and switching out government…