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Common Sense - With the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions (Paperback)
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Common Sense - With the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
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This famous pamphlet - published anonymously in 1776 because of its
seditious content - by the British political radical Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) laid out his pioneering ideas for American
independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the American
Revolution'. The Declaration of Independence, written chiefly by
Thomas Jefferson and famously promulgated later that year, was
influenced by Paine's arguments in this work: that America was too
large to be governed by a country as small as Britain - which, he
claimed, was ruling America only for its own financial gain - and
that the colonies had now achieved the financial and military
capacity to break free. Criticising the British monarchical system,
with a single figure at its pinnacle, Paine called instead for a
government that promoted security, liberty and equality for its
people. Over half a million copies of this highly influential
document were sold in America in its first year.
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