Lyrics by Common Sense

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  1. 1 2 Many
  2. A Penny For My Thoughts
  3. Another Wasted Nite With...
  4. Blows To The Temple
  5. Book Of Life
  6. Breaker 1/9
  7. Can I Bust?
  8. Chapter 13 (Rich Man Vs. Poor Man)
  9. Charms Alarm
  10. Communism
  11. Food For Funk
  12. Heidi Hoe
  13. Hungry
  14. I've Been Thinking
  15. In My Own World (Check The Method)
  16. Invocation
  17. Just In The Nick Of Rhyme
  18. Maintaining
  19. Making A Name For Ourselves
  20. My City
  21. Nuthin' To Do
  22. Orange Pineapple Juice
  23. Pitchin' Pennies
  24. Puppy Chow
  25. Resurrection '95
  26. Soul By The Pound
  27. Sum Shit I Wrote
  28. Take It EZ
  29. The Bitch In Yoo
  30. The Remedy
  31. Thisisme
  32. Tricks Up My Sleeve
  33. Two Scoops Of Raisins
  34. Watermelon

Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history. As of 2006, it remains the all-time best-selling American title and is still in print today. Common Sense made public a persuasive and impassioned case for independence, which had not yet been given serious intellectual consideration in either Britain or the American colonies. In England, John Cartwright had published Letters on American Independence in the pages of the Public Advertiser during the early spring of 1774 advocating legislative independence for the colonies while in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson had penned A Summary View of British America three months later. Neither, however, went as far as Paine in proposing full-fledged independence. Paine connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity and structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." The text was translated into French by Antoine Gilbert Griffet de Labaume in 1791.

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