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“Jim” Steyer is the founder and CEO of Common Sense Media. Steyer began his career as a law clerk to the California Supreme Court and subsequently worked as a civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund working on the group's Poverty and Justice Program.

Common Sense made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it. Paine relentlessly insisted that British rule was responsible for nearly every problem in colonial society and that the 1770s crisis could only be resolved by colonial independence.

Common sense means what people would agree about. It is a personal judgement based on the facts of a situation. Common sense is usually the simplest and most direct account of a situation. It is the knowledge and experience which most people have, or should have.

Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.

common sense. noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of COMMON SENSE. [noncount] : the ability to think and behave in a reasonable way and to make good decisions.

The theme of the pamphlet is the inevitability of American independence and the problems with monarchy. Thomas Paine's use of setting, plot, character and style are all written to better develop his theme and his impact on the common people.

common sense. noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of COMMON SENSE. [noncount] : the ability to think and behave in a reasonable way and to make good decisions.

Befitting a work titled Common Sense, Paine opens the pamphlet with an appeal to human reason. He points out that ideas are often defended out of tradition, not because those ideas are truly right, thus implying that the coming arguments will challenge people's comfortable assumptions about morality.

Common sense is the knowledge that all humans have. Such knowledge is unspoken and unwritten – we take it for granted. We acquire it imperceptibly from the day we are born. For example, “animals don't drive cars” or “my mother is older than me”.

Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.

Common-sense morality is that system of moral rules that we use in everyday life to make judgments about the character and actions of other people.