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Common sense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the American independence advocacy pamphlet by Thomas Paine, see Common Sense (pamphlet) One meaning of the term common sense (or as an adjective, commonsense) on a strict construction of the term, is what people in common would agree; that which they "sense" in common as their common natural understanding. Common sense is a perennial topic in epistemology and widely used or referred to by many philosophers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_sense   (1274 words)

Common Sense (pamphlet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Common Sense was a pamphlet first published on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War by Thomas Paine. John Taylor Gatto has reported that "Thomas Paine’s Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, 20 percent of whom were slaves and 50 percent indentured servants." Scott Liell, 46 Pages: Tom Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence, Running Press, April, 2003, hardcover, 160 pages, ISBN 076241507X; trade paperback, March, 2004, 176 pages, ISBN 0762418133. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Sense_(Book)   (565 words)

Archiving Early America After the publication of Common Sense, Paine continued to inspire and encourage the patriots during the Revolutionary War with a series of pamphlets entitled The American Crisis. "A Covenanted People" called Common Sense "by far the most influential tract of the American Revolution....it remains one of the most brilliant pamphlets ever written in the English language." Published anonymously by Thomas Paine in January of 1776, Common Sense was an instant best-seller, both in the colonies and in Europe. www.earlyamerica.com /earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense   (390 words)

Common sense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the American independence advocacy pamphlet by Thomas Paine, see Common Sense (Book). One meaning of the term common sense (or as an adjective, commonsense) on a strict construction of the term, is what people in common would agree; that which they "sense" in common as their common natural understanding. Common sense is a perennial topic in epistemology and widely used or referred to by many philosophers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_sense   (1253 words)

Common Sense (Book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Common Sense was a pamphlet first published on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War by Thomas Paine. John Taylor Gatto has reported that "Thomas Paine’s Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, 20 percent of whom were slaves and 50 percent indentured servants." For beliefs believed to be of sound judgement, see Common sense. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Sense_(Book)   (525 words)

Amazon.ca: Books: 46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Piont to Independence Calling Common Sense "the single most influential political work in American history," Liell, a member of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, asks how, in a mere 46 pages, Paine persuaded American colonists that the only solution to their quarrels with Britain was independence. Reading Liell's book made me conclude that Common Sense, along with The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Emancipation Proclamation, is one of the most important documents in the history of our country. This great book includes 'common sense' in a 46 page appendix and the many chapters detail its importance and the life of its extraordinary author. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/076241507X   (899 words)

Amazon.com: Common Sense (Dover Thrift Editions): Books Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet, "Common Sense," is one of those documents of American culture which goes all too frequently neglected these days. In Common Sense, he combines gumption and perspicuity as he introduces his origin of government and society; and ends with a call for the immediate declaration of independence by the colonists. "Common Sense" is remarkable for Paine's diagnosis of the American situation, Paine having been only 14 months in the colonies when it was published, and for its eloquence and exhortative value. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486296024?v=glance   (2312 words)

Common Sense Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography Common Sense was a pamphlet first published on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War by Thomas Paine. John Taylor Gatto has reported that "Thomas Paine’s Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, 20 percent of whom were slaves and 50 percent indentured servants." For beliefs believed to be of sound judgement, see Common sense. www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Common_sense   (716 words)

PHILO: COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY   SOURCE: Common sense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the subject in general; Common Sense is also the title of a pamphlet by Thomas Paine. The term common sense (or as an adjective, commonsense) describes beliefs or propositions that seem, to most people, to be prudent and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric Among philosophers, the issue of what common sense is is vexed; this leads many of them to shun the word altogether. www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/commons1.htm   (429 words)

[CTRL] "In Time of Peace": The Army It appears to be a shortened form of the five articles from Common Sense, of which I have reproduced most of the second one here. Smedley Butler's pamphlet War is a Racket in June, 1995. It is commonly supposed that our armed forces are entirely defensive in nature, that they have nothing to do with the making of war or the creating of situations that lead to war. www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg44643.html   (429 words)

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - America During the Age of Revolution, 1776-1789 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) "Common Sense." Thomas Paine moved many to the cause of independence with his pamphlet titled "Common Sense." In a direct, simple style, he cried out against King George III and the monarchical form of government. When North Carolina and Virginia empowered their delegates to vote for American independence, Virginian Richard Henry Lee offered a resolution stating that the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." A committee was appointed to draft a declaration of independence, and Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write it. In May, the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution authorizing the colonies to adopt new constitutions; the former colonial governments had dissolved with the outbreak of war. memory.loc.gov /ammem/bdsds/timelin2.html   (476 words)

Amazon.com: Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom: Books: Jack Fruchtman Radical journalist Thomas Paine (1737-1809), whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776) steeled American colonists to break with England, was a revolutionary, a statesman, an outspoken opponent of slavery and an advocate of democracy. Before reading this fine biography, I had not given Thomas Paine much thought beyond being the author of "Common Sense". Thomas Paine has been shortchanged in history because he was a drunk, an atheist and an all around unpleasant person (well...if he didn't like you, anyway). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0941423948?v=glance   (1769 words)

Thomas Paine, 1737-1809 Thus on January 10, 1776, he published a short pamphlet, Common Sense, which immediately established his reputation as a revolutionary propagandist. The radical propagandist and voice of the common man, Thomas Paine, was born in Thetford in Norfolk on January 29, 1737. His father, Joseph, was a poor Quaker corset maker who tried to provide his son with an education at the local grammar school but eventually was forced to apprentice him to his trade. www.historyguide.org /intellect/paine.html   (1382 words)

themselves.draft.26apr91 Those constitutions adopted before the Bill of Rights can tell us what sense "the right to keep and bear arms" had in the political vocabulary of the time; those constitutions adopted after the Bill of Rights can tell us the common understanding of the Second Amendment. In the same way that state constitutions adopted before the Bill of Rights can tell us something about the intent of the Second Amendment, the state constitutions containing a "right to keep and bear arms" clause adopted afterwards can tell us something about the meaning commonly ascribed to the Second Amendment after its passage. His pamphlet against ratification of the Constitution were "one of the most popular" of the time.15 His concerns about standing armies and the national government's authority to regulate state militias provide both insights into the importance of private arms in restraining national power, and the identity of the people as the militia. www.rkba.org /research/cramer/themselves.draft.26apr91   (1382 words)

GRAMONT, ANTOINE AGENOR ALFRED - Online Information article about GRAMONT, ANTOINE AGENOR ALFRED FLAG (or " FLAGGE," a common Teutonic word in this sense, but apparently first recorded in English) A small pamphlet containing his Souvenirs 1848-1850 was published in 1901 by his See also: face " (soufflet)—as Gramont called it in the Chamber—by means of the mutilated " Ems telegram," which was the immediate cause of the French declaration of war on the 15th. encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GRAMONT_ANTOINE_AGENOR_ALFRED.html   (1382 words)

Gag Rule - Lewis Lapham - Penguin Group (USA) Gag Rule is a lively political pamphlet written in the tradition of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense." —The New York Times Book Review Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of the right to raise our voices and have those voices heard. In the midst of the “war on terror,” we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our history. us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0786547081,00.html?sym=TAB   (159 words)

Common Sense and the American Revolution: Before You Watch Common Sense, a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, makes a case, in accessible and stirring language, for independence. The Olive Branch Petition, adopted by the Second Continental Congress and submitted to King George III, attempts to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. learner.org /channel/workshops/primarysources/revolution/before.html   (271 words)

LIBERTY! . Chronicle of the Revolution . Philadelphia 1776 PBS Common Sense spoke in plain English to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who read it. Still it took a wildly successful pamphlet by unknown writer, Thomas Paine to push the collective consciousness toward independence. In language certain to inspire patriots, and gall the King and England, a Declaration of Independence was adopted today by the Continental Congress. www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/chronicle_philadelphia1776.html   (420 words)

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont Finally, to avoid useless polemics and facile "refutations", let us emphasize that this book is not a right-wing pamphlet against left-wing intellectuals, or an American imperialist attack against the Parisian intelligentsia, or a simple know-nothing appeal to "common sense". Secondly, the intellectual value of an intervention is determined by its content, not by the identity of the speaker, much less by his or her diplomas. But when intellectual dishonesty (or gross incompetence) is discovered in one part--even a marginal part--of someone's writings, it is natural to want to examine more critically the rest of his or her work. www.human-nature.com /reason/books/sokal-bricmont.html   (420 words)

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do - Author's Notes As Thomas Paine wrote in his 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense, 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. Society, in fact, does not mind that some people flout its regulations: some people must be outside society in order for those inside society to know they're inside. www.mcwilliams.com /books/books/aint/103.htm   (1269 words)

Bunad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Accepted as proper gala attire, it is increasingly common to see people, and especially women, dressed in bunad. The overarching sense of bunad design is to preserve the way people dressed for festive occasions in one particular era. With Garborg's publication of the pamphlet Norsk Klædebunad in 1903, the focus moved from the creation of a single national costume to the development of several regional bunads. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bunad   (655 words)

The Online Reading Club -- Books We Have Read Common Sense, a political pamphlet by Thomas PAINE, had a profound effect on the thinking of Americans during the early stages of the American Revolution. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), an early novel by Thomas HARDY in which he first used the ancient term Wessex to describe the Dorset of his youth, represents the author's attempt to create a setting more atmospheric than geographic. Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), is a semiautobiographical account of the adventures of a group of expatriates, members of the so-called lost generation, in France and Spain in 1925. userpage.fu-berlin.de /~tanguay/haveread.htm   (8937 words)

Digital History Richard Lee (1732-1794), writing to a fellow Virginian, calls for American independence, a goal suddenly and effectively popularized in January 1776 by Thomas Paine's anonymous pamphlet, Common Sense. Lee subsequently introduced the resolution in Congress "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." Congress appointed a committee--consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman--to draft a declaration of independence in case Lee's resolution was adopted. On July 2, Congress approved Lee's resolution and two days later adopted the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=269   (8937 words)

american revolution information Thomas Paine produced a pamphlet entitled Common Sense arguing that the only solution to the problems with Britain would be republicanism and independence. After the war, United Empire Loyalists became a central component of the populations of the Abaco islands (in the Bahamas), the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Ontario, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Loyalists were often of the same well-to-do social circle that produced the right wing of the Patriots (take for example Thomas Hutchinson); however, the Scottish highlanders of the Mohawk Valley and the frontiersmen of Georgia included a large number of poorer King's men. www.global-terror.com /america-usa/american-revolution.htm   (8937 words)

Dean's defective label-maker - The Washington Times: Commentary Dean ever came to offering a concrete policy platform was a slim pamphlet that stole Tom Paine's title, "Common Sense," to defend what Paine opposed — namely, omnipotent government. Dean prefers to market himself as a "fiscal conservative." Fiscal conservative has come to mean someone eager to raise taxes frequently and aggressively to finance any and all spending schemes. Dean can be counted on to claim it is "right" and "fair" to favor those feeding at the government trough. www.washtimes.com /commentary/20040221-112053-3206r.htm   (1068 words)

Carl Sagan - David Rittenhouse I was studying a number of political revolutionaries who had helped edit the pamphlet, " Common Sense." One of these editors was Rittenhouse. As mentioned in the Kamen/Franklin case, a number of reincarnation matches were solved by Ahtun Re, a spirit guide channeled through Kevin Ryerson, the trance medium featured in a number of Shirley MacLaine's books. Ahtun Re told be me that David Rittenhouse had reincarnated as the late Carl Sagan. www.johnadams.net /cases/samples/Sagan-Rittenhouse/index.html   (1068 words)

Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy His occasional bursts of temper, his bluntness and dogmatism, were all parts of a big man, as was also his common sense and his strong dislike of blowing his own trumpet. Bennet amended the wording of his pamphlet, and made "a somewhat ambiguous apology in the house of commons", and Wentworth wisely carried the matter no further. Wise, courteous and conciliatory, he could be firm when it was necessary. www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html   (1068 words)

Yes on Proposition 56: Budget Passage Provisions The San Diego Union-Tribune Proposition 56 combines the structural and common-sense reforms our state needs to find a permanent solution to California's seemingly never-ending budget crisis. Proposition 56 actually empowers voters to hold their legislators accountable by giving them information in the ballot pamphlet about the budget and on a Web site about how their legislators voted. Recent commentary on Proposition 56 would lead one to believe that the morass otherwise known as the California state budget, is functioning A-OK. Opponents of the Budget Accountability Act would have you believe that the current process isn't broken, and that in fact, it actually controls spending. www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040224/news_lz1e24wright.html   (1068 words)

From Protest to Rebellion: Lessons from Tom Paine When Tom Paine published his pamphlet “Common Sense” in January of 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed, he had a clear objective: to transform protest into rebellion. Paine derided the founder of England 's feudal monarchy, William the Conqueror, as “a French bastard landing with an armed banditti and establishing himself King of England against the consent of the natives.” Jeffrey Kaplan is a writer and researcher active in the group's San Francisco Bay area chapter. www.commondreams.org /views04/0911-04.htm   (2228 words)

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