02339nam 22004693 450 991014898830332120230808200240.097837364174723736417470(CKB)3710000000924672(MiAaPQ)EBC4734496(Au-PeEL)EBL4734496(CaPaEBR)ebr11297443(OCoLC)963566262(BIP)111971651(BIP)33747503(EXLCZ)99371000000092467220210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCommon Sense Bestsellers and famous Books1st ed.Dinslaken :anboco,2016.©2016.1 online resource (47 pages)9781456572075 1456572075 Intro -- COMMON SENSE -- -- Common Sense -- INTRODUCTION. -- OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. -- OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION. -- THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS. -- OF THE PRESENT ABILITY OF AMERICA, WITH SOME MISCELLANEOUS REFLEXIONS. -- APPENDIX.Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. As of 2006, it remains the all-time best selling American title.Common Sense made public a persuasive and impassioned case for independence, which before the pamphlet had not yet been given serious intellectual consideration. He connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity, structuring Common Sense as if it were a sermon. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era".PHILOSOPHY / SocialbisacshPHILOSOPHY / SocialPaine Thomas234445MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910148988303321Common sense1400657UNINA