又或是另一段潘恩則提到在美國我們要承認的君主,就是法,他說:「let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.」,看到這裡想到的是A. V. Dicey在Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885)提出的法治(the rule of law)的概念。
而書中我唯一有印象看到常識的用字的,是如下:「common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.」在書中,潘恩即便沒有去使用常識的字,卻是使用非常常識的常識來說明美國為何應該獨立,就此,本著即便是本小書,內容卻並不能小看。