Common sense
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Common sense
（The Penguin American library）
Penguin, 1982
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Published anonymously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense became an immediate best-seller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any other factor, which helped to spark off the movement that established the independence of the United States. From his experience of revolutionary politics, Paine drew those principles of fundamental human rights which, he felt, must stand no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them, and which he later formulated in his Rights of Man.
Table of Contents
- Background to the American Revolution, 1776 from staymaker to revolutionary - the life and career of Tom Paine
- the argument of common sense
- Bourgeois radicalism - the ideology of Tom Paine
- Paine and the American bicentennial. Common sense: introduction
- of the origin and design of government in general of monarchy and hereditary succession
- thoughts on the present state of American affairs
- of the present ability of America, with some miscellaneous reflexions. Appendix: to the representatives of the religious society of the people called Quakers.
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