Thomas Paine was a writer and revolutionary. J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England. His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy, centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit.

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• Introduction: Thomas Paine and the Revolutionary Enlightenment, 1770s-1790s The Texts of Common Sense and Other WritingsCommon Sense (1776)The American Crisis #6, October 20, 1778From Rights of Man, Part First, February 1791Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet, January 15, 1793Shall Louis XVI Have Respite? January 19, 1793Agrarian Justice (1797) Contexts[Second Continental Congress] • A Declaration . . . Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms, July 1775[Pennsylvania General Assembly] • An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, March 1, 1780Quobna Ottobah Cugoano • From Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)Richard Price • A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789)James Madison • On Perpetual Peace, February 2, 1792Will Chip, a Country Carpenter [Hannah More] • Village Politics: Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen, and Day-Labourers, in Great Britain (1793)George Washington • Farewell Address, September 19, 1796InterpretationsRobert A. Ferguson • The Commonalities of Common SenseNathan R. Perl-Rosenthal • The "Divine Right of Republics": Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary AmericaGary Kates • From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of ManGregory Claeys • From The Origins of the Rights of Labor: Republicanism, Commerce, and the Construction of Modern Social Theory in Britain, 1796-1805Selected BibliographyIndex

Thomas Paine was a writer and revolutionary. J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England. His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy, centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit.

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• Introduction: Thomas Paine and the Revolutionary Enlightenment, 1770s-1790s The Texts of Common Sense and Other WritingsCommon Sense (1776)The American Crisis #6, October 20, 1778From Rights of Man, Part First, February 1791Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet, January 15, 1793Shall Louis XVI Have Respite? January 19, 1793Agrarian Justice (1797) Contexts[Second Continental Congress] • A Declaration . . . Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms, July 1775[Pennsylvania General Assembly] • An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, March 1, 1780Quobna Ottobah Cugoano • From Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)Richard Price • A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789)James Madison • On Perpetual Peace, February 2, 1792Will Chip, a Country Carpenter [Hannah More] • Village Politics: Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen, and Day-Labourers, in Great Britain (1793)George Washington • Farewell Address, September 19, 1796InterpretationsRobert A. Ferguson • The Commonalities of Common SenseNathan R. Perl-Rosenthal • The "Divine Right of Republics": Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary AmericaGary Kates • From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of ManGregory Claeys • From The Origins of the Rights of Labor: Republicanism, Commerce, and the Construction of Modern Social Theory in Britain, 1796-1805Selected BibliographyIndex

Thomas Paine was a writer and revolutionary. J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England. His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy, centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit.

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• Introduction: Thomas Paine and the Revolutionary Enlightenment, 1770s-1790s The Texts of Common Sense and Other WritingsCommon Sense (1776)The American Crisis #6, October 20, 1778From Rights of Man, Part First, February 1791Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet, January 15, 1793Shall Louis XVI Have Respite? January 19, 1793Agrarian Justice (1797) Contexts[Second Continental Congress] • A Declaration . . . Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms, July 1775[Pennsylvania General Assembly] • An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, March 1, 1780Quobna Ottobah Cugoano • From Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)Richard Price • A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789)James Madison • On Perpetual Peace, February 2, 1792Will Chip, a Country Carpenter [Hannah More] • Village Politics: Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen, and Day-Labourers, in Great Britain (1793)George Washington • Farewell Address, September 19, 1796InterpretationsRobert A. Ferguson • The Commonalities of Common SenseNathan R. Perl-Rosenthal • The "Divine Right of Republics": Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary AmericaGary Kates • From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of ManGregory Claeys • From The Origins of the Rights of Labor: Republicanism, Commerce, and the Construction of Modern Social Theory in Britain, 1796-1805Selected BibliographyIndex