What stood at the heart of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
a. The Pietists' appeal to empathy
c. A long list of accusations against the king
b. Rejection of patriarchal authority
d. The framework of the new constitution
It was "b. Rejection of patriarchal authority" that stood at the heart of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, since his goal was to convince the colonists that it was impractical to be subjugated to rule by Britain simply because of a hereditary monarch.