Thomas Paine (29 January, 1737 - 8 June, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights.
Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling American title which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, “Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.”
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CONTENTS
PREFACE-LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE / 1
INTRODUCTION / 1
OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF OVERNMENT
IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS
ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION / 1
OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY
SUCCESSION / 8
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF
AMERICAN AFFAIRS / 19
OF THE PRESENT ABILITY OF AMERICA,WITH
SOME MISCELLANEOUS REFLEXIONS / 38
APPENDIX / 51
OTHER WRITINGS OF
THOMAS PAINE
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION / 71
BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK
ON THE FRENCH REVOLOUTION / 77
PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION / 78
PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION / 81
PART ONE OF RIGHTS OF MAN / 84
OBSERVATIONS ON THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS / 169
PART TWO OF RIGHTS OF MAN / 206
PART THREE OF RIGHTS OF MAN / 213
OF SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION / 218
OF THE ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT OLD GOVERNMENTS / 224
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