Thomas Paine's Common Sense:

A. acknowledged the sovereignty of the monarch.
B. provided the colonists with a rationale for revolution.
C. had little popularity among the colonists.
D. persuaded colonial elites to sever their ties with Great Britain.
E. did not criticize all monarchs, just George III.

B. provided the colonists with a rationale for revolution.

Explanation:

Thomas Paine's Common Sense is a pamphlet that was written in 1775 to 1776 by Thomas Paine and advocated for independence from Great Britain to people who were then residing in the Thirteen Colonies. Thomas Paine wrote the Common Sense in very clear and persuasive form and without metrical structure marshaling political and moral arguments to stir up every common man and woman in the Colonies for stand up and fight for egalitarian government.

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