Enlightenment · North America · Politics
1776
Paine's Common Sense
January 10, 1776
A failed corset-maker lately arrived from England published a 47-page pamphlet in Philadelphia that argued, in prose a blacksmith could read, for total independence and a republic. It sold 150,000 copies in three months. In the time it took to hand it around, America convinced itself of what a year before had been unthinkable.
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- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations · Europe · Culture
- Declaration of Independence · North America · Politics
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- Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Europe · Culture
- Virginia Declaration of Rights · North America · Politics
- Bentham's Fragment on Government · Europe · Culture
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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