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Adams Letters

Adams Letters and Their Influence From History

Thomas Paine 's Common Sense and the convening of the second Continental Congress to discuss the Declaration of Independence epitomize the thinking of the age of enlightenment and forever changed the lives of everyone living in the colonies , including John and Abigail Adams Paine 's Common Sense spoke of the rights of man and the need for the people of the colonies to be free and declare independence from their tyrannical owner . The second Continental Congress was debating that very issue : whether or not the

colonies should break away from their parent country and fight for their freedom . Both of these events deal with the rights of men and do not define women as individuals . The tyrannical control England held over the colonies is similar to the position that men held over women and Common Sense outlines this relationship and the need for America to break free

The age of enlightenment in the 1700s broadened the minds of Europeans and provoked questions and ideas on subjects previously attributed to divine grace . Voltaire and Montesquieu wrote works such as Universal Man ' and The Spirit of Laws , which questioned authority . This encouraged the colonies across the Atlantic to begin to stand up for their own rights against their British rulers . The most famous philosopher of this time , Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about man 's place in Social Contract , wherein he said man was born free and he questioned why they should be enslaved . It was...

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