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Thomas Pain was born in Thetford, England, in 1737.  He received very little education but did learn how to read and right. At age 13 he started to work for his father as a stay maker in Thetford. Later he started working as an officer of the excise. He would hunt smugglers and collect liquor and tobacco taxes. That job did not last long though   none of his jobs did. Later his wife and child both died during childbirth and his business in making stay ropes went under. Luckily one day he met Benjamin Franklin who told him to move to America!

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Thomas arrived in Philadelphia on November 30, 1774. In Philadelphia Thomas took up his first regular employment helping edit the Pennsylvania Magazine. He published several articles anonymously or under pseudonyms. After the  battles of Lexington and Concord, which were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, Thomas argued that America should not just revolt against taxation, but also demand independence from Great Britain. Thomas expanded his idea by making a 50 page pamphlet called "Common Sense."

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- Thomas Pain died June 8,1806..Only 6 people showed up at his funeral.
-Even though Thomas supported the revolution, he was arrested in France because he would not support the execution of Louis XVI.
-Because Thomas religious views were so radical he lost a lot of his friends.
-He was named the honorary member of France

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Thomas pain published a 50 page pamphlet called "Common Sense."
Common Sense" presented the issue on the streets, making the colonists see that a big issue was upon them and that a public discussion was needed. It was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence.

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Thomas Pain also wrote a book called "Rights of Man." The book supported the French Revolution and discussed the basic reasons for discontent in European society, railing against an aristocratic society, and the end of Europe’s inheritance laws. The British government though eventually banned the book. If you tried to publish or sell the book the British government would prosecuted you.

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Thomas pain argued these ideas in is pamphlet "Common Sense"
1.) Independence from England, because England had to much power.
2.) The creation of a democratic republic.  He created this because he wanted to protect the people from a tyrannical government.

(Tyrannical means exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.)

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The Influences Thomas Pain Had In Our Country

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The Influences Thomas Pain Had In Our Country

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One Influence Thomas Pain had on our country was the Pamphlet "Common Sense" that he posed.
He also created the democratic republic that really infused our government today. He also wrote a book called "Rights Of Man" that routed against the aristocrats society. These things that Thomas Pain did really helped our government today. He played a really big part in the creation of our government and the creation of American independence.