The main reason why <span>Thomas Paine questioned British authority to rule the colonies in common sense was because the colonies were not allowed to have representation in Parliament, which he viewed as tyrannical. </span>
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Irredentism
"Irredentism is any political or popular movement that seeks to claim/reclaim and occupy a land that the movement's members consider to be a "lost" territory from their nation's past. Wikipedia"