"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine

Lately, in addition to anything I can lay my hands on regarding the trucking industry, I've also been reading some historical documents. The latest was a pamphlet writen by Thomas Paine call Common Sense.

A description of the pamphlet follows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)
(Sorry ... I could not get the URL to link properly.)

[quote] Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood; forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured Common Sense like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people.[1] Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as,

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