...in the American and the French Revolutions, expressed the idea in the following characteristic way. 'Some writers have so confounded society with government,...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices... Society in...

...violation of truth. Commerce with Britain and the Necessity of Union, 1 783 Society Versus Government Some writers have so confounded society with government,...them; whereas they are not only different, but have as different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former...

...respectively. See paradigmatically, T Paine, Common Sense (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976/1776) 65: 'Society is produced by our wants, and government...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...

...ordinary men, subscribing to the distinction Paine made in the opening of Common Sense, where he wrote, "society is produced by our wants, and government...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices."26 Beneath government...

...somewhat dramatic expression of the view which tended to treat the state almost as a 'necessary eviP. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by oniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. (Paine 1776:...

...government. Common Sense began with this idea. In his New Letters and Rights of Man, he developed it. Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...

...and government. Nowhere did he expound this more clearly than in the opening section of Common Sense: Some writers have so confounded society with government,...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...

...question addressed in the very first sentences of Thomas Paine 's "Common Sense:"]4 1 Thomas Paine1411 "SOME writers have so confounded society with government,...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. ...Society in...

...concept of government from that of society. Paine practically begins Common Sense with the statement "Some writers have so confounded society with government,...whereas they are not only different, but have different origins."1 Paine's point with this assertion is one not unfamiliar in radical Whig thought. He, like...

...viewpoint, which was shared by Mr. Paine, where, we find him intellectively delineating on the following; "Society is produced by our wants, and government...our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...