false 1190236 4 Tho he didn't emigrate from England to the colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war & the new nation that emerged from it. <i>Common Sense</i>, the instantly popular pamphlet he published in 1/1776, argued that the goal of the struggle against the British should be not simply tax reform, as many were calling for, but complete independence. His rousing, radical voice was balanced by the equally independence-minded but more measured tones of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence later that year. In later works, such as <i>The Rights of Man</i>, <i>The Age of Reason</i>, & other selections included in this volume, he proved himself a visionary moralist centuries ahead of his time. He believed that every human has the natural right to life's necessities & that government's role should be to provide for those in dire need. An impassioned opponent of all forms of slavery, he understood that no one in poverty is truly free, a lesson still to be learned by many of our leaders today. 6572525 1776 Common Sense and Other Writings total:37|5:14|4:13|3:8|2:1|1:1| 37 149 88 11 4 0 true false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 23:07:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 23:10:52 -0700 2009
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