Page 69 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

independence, and points were also integrated into the

Congressional debates and even the Declaration of Independence.
Common Sense resonated with the colonists. It provided arguments

they could relate to in a language (i.e. not Latin) and could
understand. Colonists were largely literate, proportionately more so

than their European counterparts. Paine’s pamphlet was also read
at public gatherings, so that those unable to read it would hear it,

and grasp the necessity of making a decision to join other colonists
on the call and road for independence.

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