Common Sense: An uncommon book review(Part 1)

In the absence of new book reviews by the primary author of the blog, I am going to start a new series of posts from Common Sense by Thomas Paine(My version is published by Amereon House).  First, I encourage all of my readers to take a look at this book because while short, it packs a lot of punch in so few words.  Having said that, I will now summarize a few of the key concepts and a few specific passages. 
This masterpiece was written to invoke change, but more importantly change in the name of freedom and liberty.  It was a book about civil government that was detached from the people and therefore incapable of providing those things that government should be most concerned with in favor of its own interests.  It was a book about physical separation, considering that England and the Colonies were separated by over 3,000 miles, but at the same time, and more importantly, about cultural differences.  This is why this book is so valuable a treasure, because while accurately elucidating the reasons for the colonies to actively separate from England, it provides timeless advice to the disaffected anywhere that are faced with the same issues the American colonists faced, rule under a civil government detached from the interests of the people.  In light of my last statement, I will defer to the statement of Thomas Paine himself who wrote in the introduction, "the cause of America is in a great measure the cause of mankind.  Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal..."
And it is to this universality that I appeal to for, as suprising as it would be to the author, the cause of America that he writes about in the case of the colonists is the cause of the American people once again.  The truth is that I humbly think that Thomas Paine would understand that you don't need a physical ocean to drive a wedge between the civil government and the people for that ocean suffices just as well in a metaphorical sense.  But, don't take my word for it.  Please join with me as we look at what Thomas Paine contiued to say and judge for yourself whether I have evaluated correctly the thoughts which undergird his call to common sense.