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...change. Indeed, independence and transformation were to go hand in hand. Paine daringly proclaimed that a "new era for politics is struck — a new method of thinking has arisen," and to those who dared to dream with him he added: "We have it in our power to begin the...

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...cause. Tolon's emphasis on arms was in keeping with one of the writers he greatly admired, Tom Paine. "By referring the matter from argument to arms, a...is struck; a new method of thinking hath arisen," Paine wrote in Common Sense to justify the North American colonies' war against England.9 Paine's pamphlet...

...called upon the American colonists to declare their independence. "Now is the seed time," he proclaimed. "A new era for politics is struck ... a new method of thinking has arisen." In white-hot language Paine laid out his argument against the divine right of kings, claiming...

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...expression here: "now is the seed time of continental union," but also "the least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak."7 Here as well for the first time is the daring prediction of a legitimating national constitutional...

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...(the virgin forest) to pay its soldiers, to reward its allies. "The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender...tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters." In the most eloquent, modern plea for independence from England, Paine refers to the most fundamental,...