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Displaying Common Sense
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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12:05pm December 16 2019
A first edition of Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet Common Sense is on display through January 20 at the Beinecke Library, along with other items from American history. The pages on view include Paine’s declaration that “the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king.” 
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