Common Sense Paine Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108035194

Common SenseWith the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions\nAuthor(s): Thomas Paine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108035194, 978-1108035194\nSynopsis\nThis famous pamphlet - published anonymously in 1776 because of its seditious content - by the British political radical Thomas Paine [tel] laid out his pioneering ideas for American independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the American Revolution'. The Declaration of Independence, written chiefly by Thomas Jefferson and famously promulgated later that year, was influenced by Paine's arguments in this work: that America was too large to be governed by a country as small as Britain - which, he claimed, was ruling America only for its own financial gain - and that the colonies had now achieved the financial and military capacity to break free. Criticising the British monarchical system, with a single .