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In the bitter winter of 1776, as Washington’s army retreated across New Jersey and morale crumbled, a pamphlet appeared, just 47 pages, printed on coarse paper, titled 'Common Sense.' It didn’t quote Cicero or cite Blackstone; it spoke plainly of monarchy as absurdity, of America’s destiny as self-governance, and of independence not as rebellion but as moral necessity. Written in taverns and borrowed rooms, it sold half a million copies in months, more per capita than any book before or since in English-speaking history. This was no abstract theorist: he drafted the first call for abolition in Pennsylvania, designed the first progressive tax system for revolutionary Pennsylvania, and later risked execution in France for defending the rights of the accused, even Louis XVI, against revolutionary tribunals. His pen was a lever, his syntax a weapon, and his faith unshakable: that reason, once awakened in ordinary people, could dismantle empires.
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