While Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolution, it was a short pamphlet published six months ...

Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long ...

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It could be argued that the European Loyalists were the original anti-51st state proponents, who rejected casting aside British-style government and law and order in favour of American republicanism.

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” a mere 47 pages long, “swept through the colonies like a firestorm, destroying any final ...