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The main reason Thomas Paine published Common Sense was to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent from Britain. Common Sense was a pamphlet that Thomas Paine in wrote in 1775–76 wanting to promote independence from Great Britain to the people in America in the Thirteen Colonies.
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c they bought it from Great Britain