Common Sense.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Alan S.

Series:

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

To be supplied : Project Gutenberg, 2010.

Namur : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction by Alan Taylor

Note on the Text

Chronology of Thomas Paine's Life

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, with an Address to the People Called Quakers

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780674276673

0674276671

OCLC:

1369652043