Thomas Paine · Politics

Common Sense: The Pamphlet That Made a Revolution

In January 1776 an obscure immigrant turned the colonists’ grumbling about taxes into a demand for total independence - and made the case for it in language a farmer could read aloud at the tavern.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Common Sense reframed the colonial quarrel. In your own words, what was the bigger target Paine attacked beneath the dispute over taxes?

Leads to John Locke.

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