Common Sense by Thomas Paine

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Always visible content "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is a pamphlet published in January 1776 advocating independence from Great Britain for the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear, persuasive prose, Paine presents moral and political arguments to encourage common people to fight for egalitarian government. Published anonymously at the American Revolution's beginning, it became an immediate sensation—the best-selling American title of all time. Paine connected independence with Protestant beliefs and structured his work like a sermon, Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less making the first serious case for full independence when reconciliation still dominated colonial thinking. (This is an automatically generated summary.)