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Public Good, Being An Examination Into The Claim Of Virginia To The Vacant Western Territory, And Of The Right Of The United States To The Same: To Wh

Public Good, Being An Examination Into The Claim Of Virginia To The Vacant Western Territory, And Of The Right Of The United States To The Same: To Wh

Paine, Thomas

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General ReferenceColonial Period (1600-1775)United States Politics

ISBN10: 9354508855
ISBN13: 9789354508851
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the height of the Revolution, the map was still unsettled. Borders can remake a nation. In 1780 Thomas Paine turned his fierce clarity from monarchy to acreage, producing Public Good, a revolutionary political pamphlet and American political tract that interrogates western territory land claims and the charged Virginia cession debate. He also proposes carving a new state from the frontier, treating its sale as a public fund to carry the war and redeem the national debt in one scheme together. Paine argues that vacant lands are not mere prizes for individual states but a national resource, and he links territorial policy to revolutionary war finance with hard-edged practicality: how to raise funds, reward sacrifice, and steady a fragile union. Written in the Continental Congress era, this work sits beside the great arguments of 18th century America, essential for US founding documents research and for early American history students tracing how the United States learned to think federally. Read today, it is both a bracing piece of persuasion and a window onto the competing interests that shaped expansion, debt, and sovereignty. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A public domain classic edition for any Thomas Paine collection, it also serves as Common Sense related reading for anyone who wants the revolutionary mind at work on the practical business of building a country.

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