Politics & Society
Common Sense
Paine combines political argument and accessible rhetoric in a pamphlet about independence, legitimacy and the case for a break with British rule
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Philosophy & Ideas
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine argues for Deism and subjects organized religion and biblical authority to criticism based on reason, nature, and historical analysis
Politics & Society
The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine responds to Edmund Burke by defending natural rights and representative government and arguing from the principles of the French Revolution against hereditary political privilege
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