Common Sense
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. By Thomas Paine. Edited with an Introduction by Isaac Kramnic. (New York: Penguin Books, 1986).
Recently, I acquired a copy of Thomas Paine’s most recent patriotic pamphlet, entitled . I was immediately interested in what Paine had to say in his new work, after such powerful previous works ....
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.... all their "acts" to tax us simply because we are more productive. Paine makes his contempt for the current system of government quite clear early on. "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; for even we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means ....
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