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Common Sense

Common Sense

Paine, Thomas
Taylor, Alan S.

Paperback

Series: John Harvard Library, Book 123

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0674051165
ISBN13: 9780674051164
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: Oct 15 2010
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.18
Language: English
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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