{"id":477,"date":"2012-10-10T04:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=477"},"modified":"2013-02-12T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T16:00:15","slug":"finished-reading-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/finished-reading-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Read: The US Constitution, Articles of Confederation, and Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States Constitution and Other American Documents<\/a><\/div>\n
Various Authors<\/a>; Fall River 2009<\/div>\n
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I have never read Common Sense by Thomas Paine before, and living in a monarchy I understand now more than I would have if I had previously encountered the book. I envy the days where a book could stand on its own merit in less than 100 pages. Do contemporary politics suffer because no one makes concise points anymore? If a critique that was written on modern politics was as short, direct, and blunt as Common Sense, everyone would read it.<\/p>\n

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