Common Sense

Thomas Paine

⏱ 8 minWisdom classic

Winter 1776: an anonymous pamphlet argues that government is at best a necessary evil, that monarchy is a sin dressed up as custom, and that a continent has no business being ruled by an island. In America, Paine declares, the law is king.

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