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How does Thomas Paine use imagery in Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings?

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Paine compares America’s continued state of being under British rule to babies feeding on milk.

Paine compares Americans to, “a man who is attached to a prostitute is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one” (Paine 106). Again, an allusion to British rule.

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