How did common sense influence the declaration of independence?

a. by using most of the language and format of the declaration
b. by persuading the continental congress to meet and discuss independence
c. by introducing many of the ideas the declaration later expressed
d. by suggesting authors who could write the declaration

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo, sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?