Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pushed for a more radical solution than the First Continental Congress did in resolving issues of British rule. What was Paine’s solution?

In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should break from Britain and govern themselves. His proposed solution was declaring independence, a more radical step than the First Continental Congress’s efforts to seek a resolution while remaining under British rule. Declaring war was not the specific solution Paine advocated in the pamphlet.

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