"In "Common Sense" a writer found his moment to change the
world," Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Paine's attack
on the British mixed constitution of kings, lords, and commons was
published in January 1776, fighting had already erupted between
British troops and American Patriots, but many Patriots still
balked at seeking independence. "By discrediting the sovereign
king," Taylor argues, "Paine made independence thinkable--as he
relocated sovereignty from a royal family to the collective people
of a republic." Paine's American readers could conclude that they
stood at "the center of a new and coming world of utopian
potential." The John Harvard Library edition follows the text of
the expanded edition printed by the shop of Benjamin Towne for W.
and T. Bradford of Philadelphia.
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