How does Paine use the passage of time to argue for the right of people to self-govern?

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Paine uses the passage of time to argue for the right of people to self-govern is "He describes an era in the past in which power was concentrated in one person as inappropriate for people living in his own time." Because it made him feel, not only him but also the common people around him to feel powerless against the monarch, and that this kind of rule must be changed since times have already changed.