Of all the principles that the modern United States is based on, liberty remains the essential one. Once stated by the Founding Fathers as the basis for the U.S. to evolve, the principles of liberty are a part and parcel of the modern reality. A retrospective into the times when America was represented by a bunch of colonies tied to the United Kingdom shows that it took much time and effort to fight for these principles. However, the question is whether nowadays, these principles are just as relevant for the U.S. citizens as they were to the people who were fighting for America to become independent from the British rule, as the analysis of Payne’s Common Sense shows. Even though Payne’s work, Common sense , relies heavily on the Biblical principles and quotes the Bible several times, it is far from being just as humble a plea for providing the American colonists with ore freedom; on the contrary, Payne states in a very straight-forward manner the need for the American colonies to become independent from the British rule; and, even though Payne’s work was written more than two centuries ago, the liberation ideas voiced by the writer are still considered the basis for a democratic state. Unlike most grand works, which tend to touch on several issues while the central one is left for the final discussion, Payne’s analysis of the situation concerning the conflict between the English government and the American colonists conveys the main idea of Payne’s argument to the reader with every paragraph. For instance, in the first chapter titled “On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution,” Payne considers the central theme of his work, i.e., liberty, pushed to its extreme. Making it clear that liberty is the goal of every state to strive for, Payne defines government as “a necessary evil” (Payne) and suggests imagining for a moment a state without the government. Thus, Payne makes the reader reflect on the issue of conflicts between the interests of the nation and the people at the helm, which is one of the topical issues on the agenda of the United States of the XXI century as well. The next chapter, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession,” might be considered somewhat detached from the theme stated above; however, it helps define the basic values that Payne describes in his work as the reason for American colonies to fight for. It is also very impressive that Payne manages to convey these values by interpreting the misunderstanding between the American colonists and the United Kingdom: “And here we cannot but observe that their motives were bad, viz. that they might be LIKE unto other nations, i.e. the Heathens, whereas their true glory laid in being as much UNLIKE them as possible” (Payne). It is rather peculiar that the given excerpt relies on Biblical allusions especially often. Thus, Payne re-states one of the recurrent themes in his work, i.e., religion. The third excerpt also handles the issue of the values of the American nation in a rather efficient way, with the same pattern of using Biblical tropes to impress the readers and thrill them into paying attention and at the same time to create the specific atmosphere that will make the readers believe in what the author is trying to convey. Tom Payne’s credit, he handled the task of settin