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1) Common sense
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"Common Sense," which contained the first demand for complete independence for the American colonies, sold 100,000 copies in less than three months. No other book in the United States has had such a quick or large sale relative to population. The pamphlet was highly influential in swinging the tide of popular opinion toward a clean break with the mother country."
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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
c1985
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The title, taken from the Great Seal of the United States (which is seen on the reverse side of the dollar bill), means "a new order for the ages". In this major new interpretation of the framing of the U.S. Constitution, Forrest McDonald brilliantly explains the philosophical origins from which this "new order" was born.
McDonald deftly recreates the intellectual world of the amazing fifty-five men whose genius and passion gave to us the United
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Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The purpose of America's Revolutionary Mind is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams called the real American Revolution--that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before what Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 'Concord Hymn' (1837), famously called the 'shot...
5) The origins of the federal republic: jurisdictional controversies in the United States, 1775-1787
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
1983
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