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NOTE

1. Quote from the opening song “Those were the Days” of the CBS sitcom All in the Family (1971–79), dir. Paul Bogart and Norman Campbell.

1. Common Sense became an immediate best-seller. Between January and June 1776, 35 editions were published; something on the order of 150,000 copies were printed. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style, in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple and unassuming language.”