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  2. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    Paine's attack on monarchy in Common Sense is essentially an attack on George III. Whereas colonial resentments were originally directed primarily against the king's ministers and Parliament, Paine laid the responsibility firmly at the king's door. Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution. It was a clarion call ...

  3. Common Sense (American magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Common Sense was founded in 1932 by two Yale University graduates, Selden Rodman, and Alfred M. Bingham, son of United States Senator Hiram Bingham III. [3] Its contributors were mostly progressives from a wide range of the left-right spectrum, from agrarian populists, "insurgent" Republicans and Farmer-Labor Party activists to independent progressives, Democrat mavericks and democratic ...

  4. Plain Truth (pamphlet) - Wikipedia

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    Plain Truth stated that Thomas Paine's complaints about the British Monarchy were "invalid" and "barbaric". Plain Truth goes on denounce Common Sense ' s attempt to utilise religion to attack the institution of monarchy, pithily summarising that Thomas Paine should have added "Common Sense, and blood will attend it." [2]

  5. The American Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Crisis series appeared in a range of publication formats, sometimes (as in the first four) as stand-alone pamphlets and sometimes in one or more newspapers. [9] In several cases, too, Paine addressed his writing to a particular audience, while in other cases he left his addressee unstated, writing implicitly to the American public (who were, of course, his actually intended audience at all ...

  6. Robert Bell (publisher) - Wikipedia

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    Bell became widely noted for printing Thomas Paine's celebrated work, Common Sense, a highly influential work during the revolution that openly criticized the British Parliament and their management and taxation of the British-American colonies. Bell and Paine later had a falling out over profits and publication issues.

  7. Thomas Paine Cottage - Wikipedia

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    The Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle, New York, in the United States, was the home from 1802 to 1806 of Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, U.S. Founding Father, and Revolutionary War hero. Paine was buried near the cottage from his death in 1809 until his body was disinterred in 1819.

  8. Common sense - Wikipedia

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    The common sense is where this comparison happens, and this must occur by comparing impressions (or symbols or markers; σημεῖον, sēmeîon, 'sign, mark') of what the specialist senses have perceived. [16] The common sense is therefore also where a type of consciousness originates, "for it makes us aware of having sensations at all". And ...

  9. Thoughts on Government - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, in response to Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Adams rejects the idea of a single legislative body, fearing it may become tyrannical or self-serving (as in the case of the Netherlands at the time). Thus, Adams also conceived of the idea that two legislative bodies should serve as checks to the power of the other. [1]

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