Common Sense - Revision history

Aschlafly: copy-edit improvements

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copy-edit improvements

DavidB4-bot: /* top */clean up, typos fixed: January of 1776 → January 1776

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top: clean up, typos fixed: January of 1776 → January 1776

Progressingamerica: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

2017-07-14T00:33:20Z

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

DavidB4-bot: clean up & uniformity

2016-06-27T06:27:16Z

clean up & uniformity

Progressingamerica: Template

2016-06-04T16:26:02Z

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Progressingamerica: Society and government as distinct and separate entities; refs; link

2015-07-20T21:33:39Z

Society and government as distinct and separate entities; refs; link

Progressingamerica: Librivox

2015-06-02T22:22:42Z

Librivox

TheAmericanRedoubt at 10:39, January 21, 2015

2015-01-21T10:39:23Z

PetyrB at 19:58, June 26, 2014

2014-06-26T19:58:31Z

Aschlafly: Common Sense achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the Bible

2010-07-29T23:27:45Z

Common Sense achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the Bible

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 [[image:commonsense.jpg|200px|thumb|First page of ''Common Sense'']]
-'''''Common Sense''''' was a pamphlet written and published (anonymously) by [[Thomas Paine]] in January 1776.  It denounced [[British]] rule over the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen colonies]].  The pamphlet was written in a language that spoke to the common man, and was immensely popular.  It was strongly influential in fostering the desire to be independent from the British [[monarchy]].
+'''''Common Sense''''' was a pamphlet written and published (anonymously) by [[Thomas Paine]] in January 1776.  It denounced [[British]] rule over the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen colonies]].  The pamphlet was written in a language that spoke to the common man, and was immensely popular.  It was enormously influential in fostering the desire to be independent from the British [[monarchy]].
-'''''Common Sense''''' achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the [[Bible]]: sales of '''''Common Sense''''' totaled half of the number of people who could read in the American colonies.  This work, above all others, created an American identity among colonists.  Previous to '''''Common Sense''''' the most widely read work among the colonists was ''[[Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania]]'', by Founding Father [[John Dickinson]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9YuHZOn1EbgC&pg=PA17 The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition]</ref>
+'''''Common Sense''''' achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the [[Bible]]: sales of '''''Common Sense''''' totaled half of the number of people who could read in the [[American]] colonies.  This work, above all others, created an American identity among colonists.  Previous to '''''Common Sense''''' the most widely read work among the colonists was ''[[Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania]]'', by Founding Father [[John Dickinson]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9YuHZOn1EbgC&pg=PA17 The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition]</ref>
 ==Distinction between Society and Government==

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 [[image:commonsense.jpg|200px|thumb|First page of ''Common Sense'']]
-'''''Common Sense''''' was a pamphlet written and published (anonymously) by [[Thomas Paine]] in January of 1776.  It denounced [[British]] rule over the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen colonies]].  The pamphlet was written in a language that spoke to the common man, and was immensely popular.  It was strongly influential in fostering the desire to be independent from the British [[monarchy]].
+'''''Common Sense''''' was a pamphlet written and published (anonymously) by [[Thomas Paine]] in January 1776.  It denounced [[British]] rule over the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen colonies]].  The pamphlet was written in a language that spoke to the common man, and was immensely popular.  It was strongly influential in fostering the desire to be independent from the British [[monarchy]].
 '''''Common Sense''''' achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the [[Bible]]: sales of '''''Common Sense''''' totaled half of the number of people who could read in the American colonies.  This work, above all others, created an American identity among colonists.  Previous to '''''Common Sense''''' the most widely read work among the colonists was ''[[Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania]]'', by Founding Father [[John Dickinson]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9YuHZOn1EbgC&pg=PA17 The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition]</ref>

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 '''''Common Sense''''' was a pamphlet written and published (anonymously) by [[Thomas Paine]] in January of 1776.  It denounced [[British]] rule over the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen colonies]].  The pamphlet was written in a language that spoke to the common man, and was immensely popular.  It was strongly influential in fostering the desire to be independent from the British [[monarchy]].
-'''''Common Sense''''' achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the [[Bible]]: sales of '''''Common Sense''''' totaled half of the number of people who could read in the American colonies.  This work, above all others, created an American identity among colonists.
+'''''Common Sense''''' achieved a feat accomplished by no other work except the [[Bible]]: sales of '''''Common Sense''''' totaled half of the number of people who could read in the American colonies.  This work, above all others, created an American identity among colonists.  Previous to '''''Common Sense''''' the most widely read work among the colonists was ''[[Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania]]'', by Founding Father [[John Dickinson]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9YuHZOn1EbgC&pg=PA17 The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition]</ref>
 ==Distinction between Society and Government==

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 Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.<ref>Common Sense, page 15.</ref>}}
-== External Links ==
+== External links ==
 * [http://www.ushistory.org/Paine/commonsense/index.htm Online Copy of ''Common Sense'']
 * [https://archive.org/details/commonsense00painrich Online Copy of ''Common Sense''], [[Archive.org]]
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+{{Building Toward Independence}}
 [[Category:Political Books]]
 [[Category:United States History]]
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 ==References==
 <references />
 [[Category:Political Books]]
 [[Category:United States History]]
 [[Category : Conservative Books]]

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 == External Links ==
 [http://www.ushistory.org/Paine/commonsense/index.htm Online Copy of ''Common Sense'']
-[[Category:Books]][[Category:United States History]]
+[[Category:Political Books]][[Category:United States History]]