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Thank you We sneak then here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the sheldon of wrongs forever in

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the shadow of his cool brother bill of rights Sheldon

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check out the excerpt from anything Right And now for

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a question common sense had the most in common with

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which of the following and hear the potential answer our

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calls Okay well this one's really not too tough As

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long as we keep in mind that the main point

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of common sense was that the colonies had the right

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to rule themselves Got that tattooed on your brain Good

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And just to be clear shmoop does not recommend you

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tattoo your brain unless you tattoo the words common sense

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on your brain Well then that's Just kind of funny

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in an oxymoron Ish kinda way Emphasis on the moron

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All right so first let's take a look at option

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a The articles of confederation were a post revolution thing

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that established america as a confederation of sovereign states Not

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only were the articles have bad idea that didn't work

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out but they also don't work out is our answer

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Like we said common senses about how the colony is

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On a separate from england it's not about the way

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america out of govern itself You can't be worried about

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how the u s should be organized until the u

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s actually exists Well you can but worrying about the

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governance of imaginary countries this kind of unnecessary like worrying

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about alien invasions there's no chance that a lever you

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are moving on we can eliminate d for the same

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kind of reason the u s was already established By

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the time his first president gave his farewell address there

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wouldn't have been much point in george washington calling for

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independence from england when america was like already independent from

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england We also happen to know that washington's farewell address

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was about the dangers of political parties Ah isn't it

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nice to know the us took the advice of one

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of its most important founding fathers Heart c is the

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best option we've had so far The bill of rights

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did touch on what seemed like basic human rights today

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but again bill of rights came after the american independence

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and didn't need to encourage colonist to say yes sayin

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are to the brits looks like option b is the

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only one left like it's more famous cousin The declaration

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of independence Common sense argued that the colonies should fight

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for their right to govern themselves and that they did

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Luckily everything is now totally cool between the americans and

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the brits Just don't ask him which version of the

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office is better That's a debate that will never end

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