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What Enlightenment ideas did Thomas Paine use to justify breaking from Britain in his 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense”?(1 point)

questioning authority

equality

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Both. Paine drew on Enlightenment ideas of questioning authority (rejecting monarchy and hereditary rule) and equality/natural rights (that government’s legitimacy comes from the people and must protect their rights).