Common Sense Thomas Paine - Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 17751776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.

Presents the text with annotations of "the single most influential political pamphlet ever published in America."

The book delves into the principles of democracy, advocating for equal rights for all citizens and critiquing the injustices perpetuated by monarchies and aristocracies.

Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work.

Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work.

Paine was the first international revolutionary.

The document denounced British rule and, through its immense popularity, contributed to stimulating the American Revolution. The second edition was published soon thereafter.

Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." The text was translated into French by Antoine Gilbert Griffet de Labaume in 1790.

The Age of Reason Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized ...