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What Enlightenment ideas did Thomas Paine use to justify breaking from Britain in his 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense”?(1 point)
natural rights
freedom from oppression
equality
questioning authority
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All of the above.
Paine drew on Enlightenment ideas — natural rights (Lockean rights to life, liberty, property), resistance to oppression/tyranny, political equality and rejection of hereditary rule, and the right to question and overthrow unjust authority — to argue for independence.
Paine drew on Enlightenment ideas — natural rights (Lockean rights to life, liberty, property), resistance to oppression/tyranny, political equality and rejection of hereditary rule, and the right to question and overthrow unjust authority — to argue for independence.
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