The correct answer is A) Patriots.
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine expressed ideas that best matched the views of Patriots.
Thomas Paine was an English thinker that lived sometime in the American colonist. He wrote the pamphlet called "Common Sense at the end of 1775 and published it at the beginning of 1776. It was a document of 47 pages in which Pain invited the colonists to support the Independence movement.