 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...(gazette * THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, and now selling, by ROBERT BELL, in Thirdstreet, PRICE TWO SHILLINGS, COMMON SENSE, addressed to the Inhabitants of AMERICA,...Of the Origin and Design of Government in general. 2. Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession. 3. Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs. On... | |
 | A. Mariani - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 472 pages
...influenze letterarie sul movimento per l'indipendenza. È diviso in quattro parti cosí intitolate: "Of the Origin and Design of Government in General;...with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution"; "Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession"; "Thoughts on the Present Stale of American Affairs"; e "Of... | |
 | David Williams - History - 1999 - 534 pages
...rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one. [Common sense, 1: 'On the origin and design of government in general, with concise remarks on the English constitution'] Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...hath given the power ol feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is THE AUTHOR. I. On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between... | |
 | Michael Burgan - 1776 - 2001 - 52 pages
...colonies. To give members more time, the Congress decided to put off the vote on independence for VJDTDd COMMON SENSE; ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA, On the following interesting UBJEC S. I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with concise Remarks on the English... | |
 | David Hein - 2001 - 208 pages
.... . Society in every state is a blessing, but government ... is but a necessary eviL" Thomas Paine, "Of the Origin and Design of Government in General,...with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution," in The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook, vol, i, ad ed., ed. David A. Hollinger and Charles... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - History - 2001 - 406 pages
...the journalistic writings of the colonists.11 In the first two sections of Common Sense, entitled "On the Origin and Design of Government in General, With Concise Remarks on the English constitution" and "Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession," Paine rejected monarchy in any form, even with constitutional... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...toward Revolution and independence. Common Sense was written in four sections. The first of these, "On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution," makes a distinction, well-established among those who favored the "contract" theory of government,... | |
 | James Michael Martinez, William Donald Richardson, D. Brandon Hornsby - Law - 2002 - 442 pages
...Clinton Rossiter (New York: Mentor, 1961), 72-73. 7. Hamilton, "Federalist 15," 110. 8. Thomas Paine, "On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution [excerpted from Common Sense]," in American Political Thought, ed. Kenneth M. Dolbeare (Chatham, NJ:... | |
 | John Keane - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 670 pages
...Chronicle (February 5-8, 1757); London Chronicle (Feburary 15-17, 1757). 7. Paine, Common Sense: On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution (Philadelphia, 1776). The makeup of privateer crews is discussed in Lydon, Pirates, Privateers and... | |
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On the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution. SOME WRITERS HAVE SO confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have... 
