COMMON SENSE;
ADDRESSED TO THE
I N H A B I T A N T S
OF
A M E R I C A,
on the following interesting
S U B J E C T S.
I. Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with
concise Remarks on the Declaration of Independence.
II. Of Indigenous Power and Surrogate Power.
III. Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs regarding
specific issues.
IV. Of the present Ability of America, to return to “the laws of
nature and of nature’s God.”
“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are
not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry
in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.”1
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
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“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views
beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing
God’s service when it is violating all His laws.”2
John Adams
“Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have
made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,
and property existed beforhand that caused men to make
laws in the first place.”3
Frederic Bastiat
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Indigenous Power vs. Surrogate Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bottom-up Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What Went Wrong? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Global Government: The Ultimate Surrogate . . . . . . . 14
A Monetary System to Support Indigenous Power . . . 18
Welfare and Indigenous Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Environment and Indigenous Power . . . . . . . . . . 23
Education and Indigenous Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Health Care and Indigenous Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Foreign Relations, Defense and Indigenous Power . . 32
Drugs and Indigenous Power . . .