Thomas Paine's Common Sense:
a) argued that America would become the home of freedom and "an asylum for mankind."
b) argued that the British governmental system was perfectly good, but that current officials had corrupted it.
c) sold well among the elite, who in turn were able to convey its ideas to the lower classes who began the Revolution.
d) led to his arrest on charges of treason, but he saved himself by writing another pamphlet taking the opposite position.
Answer: A