This lesson focuses on Thomas Paine’s remarkably influential pamphlet Common Sense, published in January 1776 and reprinted 25 times in the next year.

The Cato Home Study Course: 3: Thomas Paine's Common Sense

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The Cato Home Study Course: 3: Thomas Paine's Common Sense