In his pamphlet common sense, thomas paine made which radical assertion? that government taxation was no different from theft that colonial property should be redistributed equally that monarchy was an illegitimate form of government

Thomas Paine argued that hereditary monarchy went against "common sense." If a king gained power through some sort of election process, then all future kings in the kingdom should have to be elected - - not simply inherit the throne. And if a king had gained his power by conquest over another king, then hereditary succession was already interrupted and no longer valid. So the whole notion of kings handing their power down to their children in a dynasty was an illegitimate idea, not really how things are in truth. Thus hereditary monarchy should be considered an illegitimate form of government.