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Because absolute monarchy concentrates unchecked power in one person and so inevitably produces injustice and tyranny. In Common Sense Paine argues that hereditary rule does not ensure virtue or ability, places unaccountable rulers above the people, and is an unnatural, corrupt institution. Government exists to protect the rights and welfare of the people and should be based on their consent; absolute monarchy fails that test and therefore should not be tolerated.
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In Common Sense, Paine argues that absolute monarchy—an unnatural, corrupt system that concentrates unchecked hereditary power in unaccountable rulers who are not guaranteed virtue or ability—produces injustice and tyranny, violates government’s purpose to protect the people's rights and welfare by their consent, and therefore should not be tolerated.