title: Our Constitution: Landmark Interpretations of Americas Governing Document
author: Federalist Society
description: Michael Paulsen, a distinguished University Chair and Professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, is one of the nation's leading scholars on constitutional interpretation.
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  Common Sense
  
  
    
    
  [INTRODUCTION  
    
    
  ](Common%20Sense_split_001.html#filepos2437)[OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF
  GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL.
  
  
  WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION  
    
    
  [OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION  
    
    
  ](Common%20Sense_split_001.html#filepos18533)[THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF
  AMERICAN AFFAIRS
  
  
    
    
    
  [OF THE PRESENT _ABILITY_ OF _AMERICA_, WITH SOME
  
  
  MISCELLANEOUS _REFLECTIONS_  
    
    
  [ APPENDIX
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Common Sense
  
  
  ### Thomas Paine
  
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  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com  
    
  
  * INTRODUCTION
  
  
  * OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL. 
  
  
  WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
  
  
  * OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION
  
  
  * THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS
  
  
  
  
  
  * OF THE PRESENT _ABILITY_ OF _AMERICA_, WITH SOME 
  
  
  MISCELLANEOUS _REFLECTIONS_
  
  
  