- - The President of the United States when the United States annexed Hawaii as a territory and when it fought the Spanish-American War was <span>William Mckinley</span><span>
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Paine, along with many revolutionaries of the period, viewed government as being inherently limited, in the sense that it was meant to serve the people and not the other way around. That's why he wrote "common sense" which talked about the absurdity of British rule over the colonies.