Introduction
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Common Sense as Method
From Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Paine rejects custom, prejudice, and elaborate constitutional theory in favor of plain reasoning accessible to ordinary readers — the rhetorical method that gave the pamphlet its name and power.
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General
Begins reasoning from an imagined small society in a state of natural liberty to derive government's true purpose.
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