https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd Post one quotation from "Common Sense" in your group's category by clicking on the + sign to add a sticky note in each column. Please type your name as the title of your sticky note and include the page number of your quotation in parenthesis after it. en-us 2020-08-27 15:33:35 UTC 2020-09-01 14:42:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828557 “In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest; they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world.” (Paine 273).]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828557 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828595 "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." (Paine 273)]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828595 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828707 "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them.... Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness"
Page 272]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828707 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828860 "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origin." (Page 272)]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828860 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828938  "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" (Paine 274).]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711828938 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711829030  ¨Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.¨ (Paine 272)]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711829030 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711829547 "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil" (Paine 273).]]> 2020-09-01 14:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711829547 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711830633 "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise" (Paine 273).]]> 2020-09-01 14:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711830633 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711831702 Shortly afterward, Paine left for America with a letter of introduction from Franklin, recommending him as "an ingenious worthy young man."]]> 2020-09-01 14:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711831702 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711832051 “Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them”]]> 2020-09-01 14:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711832051 maddy0mww https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711832594 "A thousand motives will excite them thereto; the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same." (Paine 273)]]> 2020-09-01 14:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711832594 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711833862 "Four or five united would be able to raise a tolerable dwelling in the middle of a wilderness, but one man might labor out the common period of life without accomplishing any thing" (Paine 273). ]]> 2020-09-01 14:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711833862 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711834869 "Some convenient tree will afford them a State House, under the branches of which the whole Colony may assemble to deliberate on public matters" (Paine 273).]]> 2020-09-01 14:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711834869 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711835372 "'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace'; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty" (Paine 277).]]> 2020-09-01 14:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711835372 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711843037 “But as the Colony increases, the public concerns will increase likewise, and the distance at which the members may be separated, will render it too inconvenient for all of them to meet on every occasion as at first...” (Paine 273).]]> 2020-09-01 14:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711843037 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711845564 “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positivity by uniting our affections, the latter negativity by restraining our vices” (Thomas Paine 272).]]> 2020-09-01 14:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711845564 https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711847050 “And however our eyes might be dazzled with show, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may wrap our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and reason will say ‘‘tis right “]]> 2020-09-01 14:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edolan9/gajux76v3uo5ikfd/wish/711847050