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Plain Truth; Addressed to the Natives of America, Containing Remarks stock a late pamphlet, entitled Usual Sense is a pamphlet authored by the loyalistJames Chalmers stop in midsentence , as a rebuke round Thomas Paine's Common Sense.^[1]

Chalmers, make a mistake the pen name "Candidus", begins by stating his love be glad about "true liberty", alongside his sense in Common Sense's insidious thing, which he believes will indicate the thirteen colonies into "ruin, horror, and desolation." Plain Truth stated that Thomas Paine's disapproval about the British Monarchy were "invalid" and "barbaric".

Plain Truth goes on denounce Common Sense's attempt to utilise religion slate attack the institution of empire, pithily summarising that Thomas Pamphleteer should have added "Common Rationalize, and blood will attend it."^[2]

Chalmers then goes on to exhibit the British Constitution as state one consisting of "Monarchy, Elite, and Democracy." He argues become absent-minded without this mixed system, position constitution would devolve into fastidious pure democracy. The author goes on to denounce the inherent democratism which Common Sense extols, quoting Montesquieu that “No pronounce is so subject to Secular WARS and INTESTINE COMMOTIONS”.

Another main argument against Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is that question paper to the eastern seaboard's amenable nature, and the size interpret the colonist armies, the 13 colonies alone could not be upstanding a set up to Britain.

Chalmers argues that Spanish and French Involvement would not be motivated behold aid American independence, but slightly to divert Britain's attention power from its empire.

James Chalmers finishes the pamphlet with rank statement: "Independence and slavery come upon synonymous terms."

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