Topics
Paine wrote and lectured on a small number of recurring themes for thirty years. Browse the corpus by theme rather than by volume.
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Independence & Revolution
*Common Sense*, the *American Crisis* papers, and the writings that argued the colonies into a separate nation.
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Monarchy vs Republic
Paine's case against hereditary government and for representative republics, in *Common Sense*, *Rights of Man*, and the late constitutional writings.
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Rights & Citizenship
Natural rights, civil rights, the franchise, and the relation between the citizen and the government claiming to act on his behalf.
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Religion & Reason
*The Age of Reason*, the late deistic writings, and the case for one universal Creator against every revealed religion.
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Property & Justice
*Agrarian Justice* and the writings on land, inheritance, taxation, and the welfare state Paine sketched a century before its name.
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Finance & Banking
The Bank of North America writings, the wartime financing pamphlets, and *The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance*.
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Slavery & Abolition
*African Slavery in America* (1775), the Pennsylvania Abolition Act preamble (1780), and Paine's lifelong objection to the trade.
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France & the French Revolution
Paine in the National Convention, the constitutional commission, the Luxembourg, and the long aftermath.
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Burke & the Debate
The Burke-Paine exchange of 1790-92 -- *Reflections on the Revolution in France* and *Rights of Man* -- the founding documents of modern conservative and modern liberal thought.
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Letters & Replies
Open letters, public correspondence, replies to clergymen and statesmen -- the form Paine returned to whenever a private quarrel needed to be made political.
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Science & Invention
Paine the engineer -- the iron-arch bridge, the smokeless candle, the planing machine, and the late letters on natural philosophy.
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Later American Writings
The eight *Letters to the Citizens of the United States* (1802-03) and the late New Rochelle correspondence.
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