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Tables of Contents for Common Sense
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
7
50
Background to the American Revolution, 1776
7
18
From staymaker to revolutionary: The life and career of Tom Paine
25
12
The argument of Common Sense
37
9
Bourgeois radicalism -- the ideology of Tom Paine
46
9
Paine and the American bicentennial
55
2
NOTES TO EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
57
2
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
59
1
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
60
1
COMMON SENSE
61
52
Introduction
63
2
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General
65
6
Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
71
10
Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs
81
19
Of the present Ability of America, with some misellaneous Reflexions
100
13
Appendix
113
 
To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers
122