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Common Sense: The Origin and Design of Government

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Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summertime of 1776. Written by famed political theorist Thomas Paine, this pamphlet boldly challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy to rule over the American colonists.

By the use of plain language and a reasoned style, Paine chose to forego the philosophical and Latin references made popular by the Enlightenment era writers. Because of this, Paine united average citizens and political leaders in the back of the central idea of independence and transformed the tenor of the colonists’ argument against the British. As the most productive-selling American title of all time, Common Sense has been eloquently described by historian Gordon S. Wood as “the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of all the revolutionary era.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) used to be an English-American political activist, philosopher, and revolutionary. As one of the crucial Founding Fathers of the USA, he authored the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain in 1776. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights and the separation of church and state. He has been known as a corset-maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination.

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